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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:
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- 1835 [LA] → Owner
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- 1815 [EY] → Owner
Left in trust for his wife and children under the will of Robert McGhie made in 1814, for which administration was granted in 1817. |
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1810 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
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1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£3,480 14S 8D
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Notes |
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Higman puts two estates together - Hampstead and Retreat. They were both located in the upper Martha Brae River and were owned by John H. Deffell at emancipation. Hampstead had a cattle mill and Retreat had a water mill. |
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B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.138. |
Estate Information (20) |
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1781
[Name] Retreat
1781, Dec. 26. Lease for a year. Ind. betw. Robert McGhie of Bristol, Esq., & Eliz. Pomeroy his wife of the one part, & Wm. Miles of Bristol, Esq., and Tho. McGhie of L., Esq., of the other. Wit. that for 5s. R. McG. & wife sell to W. Miles & T. McG. one-third of the Retreat sugar plantation in Trelawny, also one-third of Hampstead and one-third of slaves, all formerly belonging to Jane Stone, decd.
Caribbeana III
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1799
[Name] Retreat
[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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 151 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 70(F) 73(M)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of William Fairclough as Receiver.
T71/225 709-714
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 147 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of Robert H Scott as Reciever. Enrolled 28th June 1817 as in possession of William Fairclough Esquire the then Receiver.
T71/231 [unpaginated]
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 212 Registered to James McDonald.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 188 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of Robert H Scott as Receiver in Chancery.
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 199 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1826
[Name] Retreat
Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie. Number of enslaved people and stock not clear, transcribed erroneously?
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.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of Robert Haldane Scott as Receiver.
T71/235 [unpaginated]
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 99 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 185 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 53(F) 50(M)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr and James MacDonald, as Receivers for Retreat Estate.
T71/239 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)
[Name] Retreat [Stock] 152 Registered to heirs of Robert McGhie.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Registered to John H. Deffell.
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.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)
[Name] Retreat Estate In the possession of William S. Grignon and James McDonald as attornies for Retreat Estate.
T71/242 155
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???? - 1848
Widow of prominent mahogany merchant and landowner
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Retreat [2] [ Jamaica | Trelawney ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/227 [accessed 19th April 2024].
