Ashley Hall

Estate Details


Associated People (7)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
1815 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
1820 [EA] - → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Other
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1826 [EA] - → Other

Owned a group of enslaved people who were brought to Ashley Hall when inherited by John L. Walcott's wife in the mid-1820s.


Associated Claims (2)

£1,778 7S 1D
£567 2S 5D

Notes

A sugar estate in Trelawney, Jamaica, owned by John Cowper and William Miller in 1817. Miller sold his share to John Cowper and the estate was repossessed by John L. Walcott, the mortgagee, after the death of Cowper c. 1822. Note that a group of enslaved people on this estate were under different ownership, belonging to John L. Walcott in right of his wife.


Estate Information (23)

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1795
[Name] Ashley Hall Estate  
[Crop] Coffee, pimento, hire of enslaved people, lumber, cattle, plantains  
 

Account given by Robert William Fisher and William Barker Utten? Esqs, executors. Account filed by Charles Ashley, clerk of plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 15
1795
[Name] Ashley Hall Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee, pimento, cotton, corn, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to William Ashley, dec. Account given by Robert William Fisher, executor. Account filed by Charles Ashley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Miller and Cooper.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot) 35(F) 58(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Miller and John Cowper as Joint owners.

 
T71/227 1531-1534
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to John Cowper.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 41(F) 64(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Cowper as owner. 92 enslaved people "Bot' from William Miller and John Cowper", 10 "By purchase from William Vredenburg".

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to John Cooper.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to John Cowper.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

J L Walcott as Mortgagee in possession of the Estate of John Cowper deceased. 80 enslaved people "by purchase from William Miller Esquire and registered by John Cowper 1820".

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 32(F) 52(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John L. Walcott as Mortgagee of the Estate of John Cowper.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John L. Walcott in right of his Wife. Registration in 1823 for 13 enslaved people. By the will of J.G. Underhill.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot) 13(F) 10(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

J. L. Walcott as owner. Increase of 1 enslaved person "by purchase from Mary G. Underhill".

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot) 35(F) 52(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

J. L. Walcott as Mortgagee in possession.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John L. Walcott as Mortgagee.

 
T71/242 326
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

J. L. Walcott as owner.

 
T71/242 327
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Ashley Hall  
[Stock] 58  
 

Registered to John L. Walcott.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.