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Back River

Jamaica | Portland

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1780 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Overseer
Alexander Robertson
1780 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
John Hanbury Taylor
1782 [EA] - → Overseer
James Bryce
1784 [EA] - → Previous owner
James Fraser
1784 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
John MacQueen otherwise McQueen
1786 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Overseer
Hugh MacLean

Estate Information (9)

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1780
[Name] Back River  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

In the possession of John Hanbury Taylor Esq. as mortgagee. Account filed by Alexander Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 212
1781
[Name] Back River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No property details. Account filed by Alexander Robertson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 101-102
1782
[Name] Back River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Bryce as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 112
1782
[Name] Back River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alex.r Robertson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 170
1784
[Name] Back River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the late James Fraser. Account filed by John McQueen Esq. mortgagee in possession of Back River plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 188-9
1786
[Name] Back River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Hugh Maclean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 142
1786
[Name] Back River Plantation  
[Crop] not clear?  
 

John McQueen of St Thomas-in-the-East, mortgagee in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 5-7
1786
[Name] Back River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Hugh McLean, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 178
1787
[Name] Back River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed by Hugh Maclean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 91