Southfield

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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
1795 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Tenant in possession
1834 [EA] - → Agent

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£1,161 8S 5D

Estate Information (22)

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1795
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, coffee  
 

Belonging to William Rhodes James Esq as attorney to the estate. Account filed by G Evens as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 238-239
1797
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Rhodes James Esq, Snr. Account given by Thomas James William Brown, attorney. Account filed by George Levens, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 176
1798
[Name] Southfield Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of William Rhodes Esq under the direction of Thomas James and William Brown his attorney. Account filed by said William Brown for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 188
1799
[Name] Southfield  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Trelawney 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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to A. W. Colville.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 578(Tot) 286(F) 292(M)  
[Name] Fontabelle Estate  
 

In the possession of Frances Graham and George William Hamilton as Attornies to Andrew Colvile Esquire. Assumed to be both Fontabelle and Southfield.

 
T71/226 991-1024
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to A. W. Colville.

 
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] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
 

In the possession of George William Hamilton, James McDonald and Hugh McDonald Esquires as Attornies to Andrew Colvile.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of James MacDonald Esquire as Attorney for Andrew Colvile Esquire.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of James McDonald as Attorney for Southfield Estate.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of James MacDonald as attorney for Southfield Estate.

 
T71/239 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to Thomas Young.

 
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] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Andrew Colville.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Southfield Estate  
 

In the possession of James and John Reid MacDonald as Attornies for Southfield Estate.

 
T71/242 153