Weyhill

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - 1836 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£1,949 7S 0D

Estate Information (25)

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1801
[Name] Wey Hill Plantation  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people and coffee  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Marte Landell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 198-199
1803
[Name] Wey Hill Estate  
[Crop] Coffee and plantins?  
 

Account filed by Mark Landell.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 9
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill and Fort Morison  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill etc.  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Wey-Hill & Fort Morison  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Wey Hill & Fort Morrison  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 50(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Weyhill  
 

Robert Smellie, attorney to James Sadler.

 
T 71/33 1132-1135
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 52(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Wey Hill  
 

Robert Smellie, attorney to James Sadler.

 
T 71/34 225v
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Wey Hill  
[Stock] 8  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 53(F) 52(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Lancaster Whitefield and Alexander Gilzean, attornies to James Sadler, owner.

 
T 71/35 509-510
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Wey Hill  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 55(F) 55(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Henry Pinckard and Alexander Gilzean, attornies of James Sadler, owner.

 
T 71/36 269-270
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 57(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Henry Pinckard and Alexander Gilzean, attornies of James Sadler, owner.

 
T 71/40 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Wey Hill  
 

Registered to James Saddler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Weyhill  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 60(F) 55(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Henry Pinckard and Alexander Gilzean, attornies of James Sadler, owner.

 
T 71/42 156
1833
[Name] Weyhill  
 

The Tourist: A Literary and Anti-slavery Journal 14/01/1833, p. 164: report of Alexander Kelly, an enslaved person on Wey Hill, who was flogged to death in punishment for refusing to obey an order in late 1832, with the apparent consent of his manager Alexander Gilzean (q.v.).

1839
[Name] Weyhill  
[Size] 565  
 

Registered to estate of James Sadler.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.