Blackmorass

Estate Details


Associated People (17)

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
1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
1770 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Attorney
1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Attorney
1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Attorney
1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.

1774 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
1777 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Executor
1780 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Overseer
1780 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.

1782 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Overseer
1785 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Overseer
1786 [EA] - → Overseer
1787 [EA] - → Attorney
1787 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1787 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1791 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.

1792 [EA] - → Not known

Filed Accounts Produce.


Estate Information (27)

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1769
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 67
1770
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 66
1771
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 66
1772
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 65
1773
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. now of the Kingdom of Great Britain and under the care and direction of Samuel William Haughton, Julines Herring and John Somerville Esqs. Account filed by Robert Nichols, gentleman

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 65
1774
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Estate of William Lewis Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Somerville Esquire, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 143
1775
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of William Lewis Esquire, deceased. Account filed by John Somerville Esquire, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 142-143
1776
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of William Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Somerville equire, attorney. Cornwall & Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 13
1777
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of William Lewis Esq. as acting executor of the last will and testament of the said William Lewis Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Lewis Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1778
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. deceased and under the care and direction of William Lewis Esq. as acting executor of the last will and testament of the said William Lewis Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Lewis Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 152
1779
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper  
 

Belonging to the estate of William Lewis Esq. and now under the care and direction of William Lewis as acting executor of the last will and testament of William Lewis Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 113
1780
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Duncan Wright as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 214
1780
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of William Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Kitchen. Cornwall & Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 25-26
1781
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, timber  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Duncan Wright as a overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 94
1782
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper, timber  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Robert Fullarton, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 185-186
1783
[Name] Blackmorass  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Fullarton as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 99
1785
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Grant, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 50
1786
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Cope, overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 113
1786
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, old copper, hire of enslaved people, logwood  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 136
1787
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed by Francis Grant as attorney to Messrs Stephen and Rose Fuller the mortgagees in possession of the estate of William Lewis Esquire deceased. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 196-205 f.100-104
1787
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 26
1788
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1788 to 31/12/1788. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 217 f.118
1789
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 313 f.155
1790
[Name] Blackmorass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Grant as overseer. Cornwall and Blackmorass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 277-278
1791
[Name] Black Morass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Andrew Jardine. Cornwall and Black Morass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 308
1792
[Name] Black Morass  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Colquhoun Grant, planter of the parish of Hanover. Accounts filed for 31/12/1791 to 27/03/1792. Cornwall and Black Morass filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 111
1792
[Name] Black Morass Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Henry Lewis Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Parkinson attorney to the Cornwall and Black Morass Estates. Cornwall and Black Morass Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 60-61