Windsor Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (3)

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
- 1804 [EY] → Owner
1805 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£3,945 11S 5D

Notes

This appears to have been the pen of which A.E. Furness wrote:

'Ten years later in 1781, he [John Tharp IV] acquired 7,500 acres of crown land in the Cockpit Country, the mountainous country above the Martha Brae valley. Later, in 1791, he was able to complete his estate next to the mountains by buying the thousand acre Hawkerton plantation from William Guthrie for over £6,000 currency. He gave the name Windsor to this estate he had built up so patiently next to the mountains.'

Furness noted that the 1804 map of the County of Cornwall did not show a sugar estate named Windsor, and concluded it was a pen, borne out by LBS' data. [The 1804 map does show Windsor Castle estate (JA1926) in Trelawney which is given as a sugar estate with a cattle mill but in the almanacs and slave registers has fewer than 50 enslaved people settled upon it.]


Sources

A. E. Furness 'The Tharp Estates in Jamaica' https://fgsj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/The-Tharp-Estates-in-Jamaica-by-A-E-Furness.pdf p. 5 [accessed 09/04/2020].


Estate Information (21)

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1805
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

The inventory of John Tharp (1805) gives his personal property on Windsor Pen as having a value of £31,172 7s 6d.

 
Email from Anthony Gambrill sourced to John Tharp Details of Inventory Volume 104 Folio33 April24 1805.
1807
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Account filed by James McNish as overseer. Filed for 31st Oct 1806-30th Sept 1807.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 19
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 427  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor  
[Stock] 391  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 214(Tot) 107(F) 107(M)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William Fairclough and William Shand as the resident attornies or agents in this Island to the surviving Trustees of the will of John Tharp Esquire deceased as owner.

 
T71/225 949-958
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor  
[Stock] 419  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor  
[Stock] 375  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William Shand and William Fairclough Esquires as Resident Attorneys or Agents in this Island of the surviving trustees of the will of John Tharp Esquire as Owner deceased.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor  
[Stock] 355  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 339  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as attorney to the Trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased. Registered in 1820 by William Fairclough and William Shand.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 500  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 368  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr & James Philips as Attornies to the Trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 300  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 379  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 226(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr & William Tharp as Attornies to the trustees of John Tharp Esquire deceased.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 402  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 538  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharp.

 
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] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
[Stock] 467  
 

Registered to heirs of John Tharpe.

 
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] 219(Tot) 119(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Windsor Pen  
 

In the possession of William Tharp as Attorney of the Trustees of John Tharp deceased.

 
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