Irwin Estate

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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
1772 [SY] - 27/01/1788 [ED] → Tenant-for-life
27/01/1788 [SD] - 1839 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
1758 [EA] - 1772 [EY] → Owner
1763 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Overseer

This is a tentative linkage only: 'Richard Crew' was shown as the overseer.

1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,349 13S 8D

Notes

Note the Hall Family Papers and Sugar Plantation Records, 1709 - 1892 at UC San Diego, http://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0220.html [accessed 13/02/2017]. The papers themselves have been digitised, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/collection/bb3175569k [accessed 20/12/2021].


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1763
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of Samuel Cleland as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4
1764
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of Samuel Cleland as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 87
1765
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of Samuel Cleland as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 133
1766
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of Samuel Cleland as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 171
1767
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of Samuel Cleland as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 78
1768
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 104
1769
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 175
1770
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 3
1771
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 73
1772
[Name] Irwin  
 

Bequeathed in trust by Thomas Hall to his eldest son Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall, entailed for heirs male.

 
PROB 11/982/285
1772
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Thomas Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 44
1773
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esq. Account filed by Thomas Holt as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as one of the trustees.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 69
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 325(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 207  
 

Listed as belonging to Hugh Kirk Patrick Hall with 10 men bearing arms and 6 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 196 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1774
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. as attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 242
1775
[Name] Irvin Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esq. Account filed by Richard Crew as overseer on the order of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. attorneys for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 18-9
1777
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire on the orders of John Kennion and William Brown attornies for the estate. Account filed by John Kay as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 138
1781
[Name] Irwin Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed "to the first day of December 1781". Property of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire, by order of John Kennion Esquire, attorney. Account filed by Thomas White, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 140-141
1782
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire. Account filed by Thomas White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 169 f.85
1783
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire. Account filed by Thomas White, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 191
1785
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of H. K. Hall Esq. Account filed by Thomas White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 76
1785
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of H K Hall Esq.; account filed by Thomas White, overseer of Irwin Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 60
1787
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Hugh R Hale Esq; account filed by Thomas White, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 108
1787
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Hugh K. Hall Esq; account filed by Thomas White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 42
1788
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Waugh as overseer. Accounts filed for 28/12/1787 to 28/12/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 225 f.122
1788
[Name] Irwin  
 

On the death of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall, the entail passed to his eldest son Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall.

 
PROB 11/982/285
1789
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Waugh as overseer. Accounts filed for 28/12/1788 to 28/12/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 197
1790
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Somerville as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 365-366 [f.182]
1791
[Name] Irwins Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Somerville as overseer. Accounts filed for 28/12/1790 to 28/12/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 139-140 [f.64]
1792
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirk Patrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Somerville late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 31-32 [f.16]
1793
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, a few cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirk Patrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Abercrombie overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 364
1793
[Name] [no name given]  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Brown as overseer. Assumed to be Irwin, Kirkpatrik Hall and Tryall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 362-363
1794
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall Esq deceased. Account filed by John Abercrombie as overseer for the period 28/12/1793 to 28/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 150-151
1795
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late HK? Hall, Esq, deceased. Account filed by John Thompson, late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 4
1796
[Name] Irvin Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers and cows  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Hugh Kirkpatrick, dec. Account given by John Perry. Account filed by George Taylor, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Irwin Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, calf, pasturage, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall of GB. Account given by John Perry, attorney. Account filed by Walter Leslie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 189
1798
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, beef  
 

Property of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq of Great Britain on the order of John and William Perry Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by Charles Brown as book keerer for the period 12/02/1798 to 18/05/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 110
1799
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, cattle, labour hire, old brass  
 

Property of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq of Derby, Great Britain on the order of John and William Perry Esq.s attorneys for the plantation. Account filed by said William Perry for the period 05/02/1799 to 09/05/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 133-134
1799
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1800
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, cattle, old brass  
 

Property of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq of Derby, Great Britain on the order of John and William Perry Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by James Ould as overseer for the period 12/02/1800 to 14/06/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 163-164
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 365(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin and Penn  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall as the proprietor. Assumed to include Stapleton Pen.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 27. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1801
[Name] Irwin Penn  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq, account given in by order of John and William Perry Esquires attornies for said penn. Account filed by John Morewood as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 140
1801
[Name] Irwin Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq. Account filed by James Child as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 147
1803
[Name] Irwin Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, butter  
 

Property of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq on the order of George Lawrence Esq his attorney. Account filed by George Lawrence.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 94
1806
[Name] Irwin  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pasturage, livestock, land rental, bridge use and cart hire  
 

Belonging to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall Esq. and disposed of by George Lawrence Esq. his attorney. Account filed by Charles Elliot. Filed for 1806 (to the 25th July).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 39
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 337(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 836(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin etc.  
[Stock] 218  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall. Assumed to be Irwin, Kirkpatrick Hall, Stapleton and Tryall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 312  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 268  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot) 142(F) 136(M)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray and George Gordon as joint attornies to Thomas K. Hall Esq.

 
T71/203 52-58
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 277(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 263  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 344  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray as Attorney to Thomas K Hall Esq, the owner of Irwin Estate.

 
T71/206 70-71
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 293  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall (assessed).

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 305  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of Walter Murray and George Gordon as joint Attornies of Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall and settled on Irwin Estate.

 
T71/209 129-130
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 281  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 283  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall.

 
T71/214 355-356
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall.

 
T71/218 unpaginated
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 264  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin  
[Stock] 120  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Irwin Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles O'Connor and Henry Hunter as Attornies to Thomas Kirkpatrick Hall.

 
T71/222 296
1839
[Name] Irwin  
[Size] 1793  
 

Registered to Thomas K. Hall.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.