Old Plantation

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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
1757 [SY] - 1814 [EY] → Owner
- 1744 [EY] → Owner
1744 [SY] - 1757 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee
1832 [EA] - → Trustee

Associated Claims (2)

£26 11S 6D
£3,945 11S 10D

Notes

Absentee-owned from 1759 when Henry Dawkins II left Jamaica for Britain.


Estate Information (42)

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1744
[Number of enslaved people] 385(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
 

Bequeathed by Henry Dawkins I to his eldest son James Dawkins the younger.

 
James Dawkins, The Dawkins Family in Jamaica and England, 1664-1833 (PhD thesis, UCL, 2017) chapter 1
1760
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to the Honourable Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor plantation, Old Plantation, Friendship Plantation, Sutton Plantation, Parnassus Planatation, Caymanas Plantation, Magotty Plantation, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 157
1761
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Magotty, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1762
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estates belonging to Henry Dawkins Esquire in Jamaica. Account filed by Charles Bosnell Esquire, one of the attorneys to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Windsor, Old Plantation, Friendship, Sutton, Parnassus, Caymanas, Trodways, Salt Ponds all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 195
1765
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 127
1766
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 173
1771
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 10
1772
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 68
1773
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 91
1774
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 89
1775
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 105
1776
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 109
1777
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 148
1778
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 148
1779
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by John Shickle as one of his attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 147
1780
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 218
1781
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as clerk to Henry Dawkins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 147
1783
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Henry Dawkins. Account filed by Thomas Raymond as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 9-10
1792
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Raymond attorney to Henry Dawkins Esquire. Parnassus, Old Plantation, Suttons, Friendship, Vere Estate and Windsor filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 267 [f.134]
1793
[Name] Old Plantation Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Scott accomptant to the heirs of Henry Dawkins Esq deceased. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor estates filed together. Which parish is not stated

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 22
1795
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Scott accountant to Henry Dawkins Esq for the year ending 31/12/1795. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor estates filed together. Only crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 66
1797
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle and horses  
 

Account filed by David Falconer as accountant to the attornies of Henry Dawkins Esq for the year to 31/12/1797. Parnanssus, Old Plantation, Sutton, Friendship, Windsor and Vere estates filed together. Only crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 17
1798
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1803
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Henry Dawkins Esq. Account filed by Wm Ayton his accomptant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 68
1807
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Property of Henry Dawkins Esq. Account presented by Thomas Clark as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 203
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 347(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to Henry Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 135  
 

Registered to James Dawkins, attorney.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot) 146(F) 144(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Graham and William Shand as attorneys to James Dawkins the owner.

 
T71/57 538-549
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 6  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 7  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 293(Tot) 150(F) 143(M)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
 

In the possession of The Honble William Shand and Malcolm McLeod as attornies for James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/58 137
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 300(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot) 139(F) 139(M)  
[Name] Old Plantation Estate  
 

In the possession of John Williams and Malcolm McLeod Esquires as attornies of James Dawkins, Esquire.

 
T71/59 151
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot) 134(F) 134(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt Esquire as attorney for the trustees of James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/60 128
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 135(F) 123(M)  
[Name] Old Plantation Estate  
 

In the possession of William Hewitt Esquire as attorney to the trustees of James Dawkins Esquire.

 
T71/61 111
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas James Bernard and Walter George Stewart as attornies of the Rt Honble. Lord Viscount Downe, Sir George Francis Hampton Bart and Sir William Henry Cooper, trustees of James Dawkins.

 
T71/64 107
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Old Plantation  
 

Registered to James Dawkins.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Claren.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.