Glen Islay (including Grove)

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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
1780 [EA] - 1808 [EY] → Joint owner
1780 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Joint owner
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - → Executor
1832 [EA] - → Executor
1832 [EA] - → Executor
1832 [EA] - → Executor
1832 [EA] - → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

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£973 3S 7D

Estate Information (48)

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1774
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 152
1775
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 52
1776
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 96
1778
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 103
1779
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 146-7
1780
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir John Wedderburn Bart. and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 134
1781
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir John Wedderburn Bart. and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 125
1782
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir John Wedderburn Bart. and James Wedderburn Esq. and under the care and direction of John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Thomas Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 155
1783
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn as attorney to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 2-3
1784
[Name] Glen Islay  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn as attorney to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed Thomas Thompson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 34
1787
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John and James Wedderburn, attorneys to Sir John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn; account filed by John Wedderburn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 121
1787
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn Esqs, attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esq; account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 56
1788
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, logwood  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn Esquires attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart. and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 397-398 f.218
1789
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart. and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 223-224 f.113
1790
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Moorhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 331-332 [f.165]
1791
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 116-117 [f.53]
1792
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham Esquires attornies for Sir John Wedderburn bart and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 41-42
1793
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham Esquires attornies for Sir John Wedderburn bart and James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 342-343 [f.172]
1794
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham Esq.s attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 121-122
1795
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn and John Graham Esq.s attornies to Sir John and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 82-83
1796
[Name] Glenislay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to John and James Wedderburn. Account given by James Wedderburn and James Graham, Esqs, attornies. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers, hire of enlaved people  
 

Belonging to Sir John Wedderburn, Bt. Account given by James Wedderburn and John Graham, Esq's. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 212
1798
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn and John Graham Esq.s attornies to Sir John Wedderburn bart and James Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 181
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Glen Islay  
 

Registered in Westmoreland in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at a vestry convened for that purpose 15/11/1799 and subsequent days. No ownership details given.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 38.
1799
[Name] Glen-Islay  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland 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.
1799
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, logwood, hire of enslaved people  
 

Under the direction of John Graham Esq attorney to Ja.s Wedderburn, Ja.s Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 156
1800
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of WIlliam Brown, Patrick Miller and Samwell Forrester, attornies to Sir John V James Wedderburn. Account filed by Patrick Muirhead as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 38-39
1801
[Name] Glen Islay Castle  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of William Brown, Patrick Miller and Somerville Forrester, Attornies to Sir John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn. Account filed by Robert Guthrie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 18
1803
[Name] Glen Islay Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Patrick Miller, Somerville Forrester and James Wedderburn attornies to Sir John Wedderburn Bart and James Wedderburn Colville Esq.s. Account filed by Robert Guthrie as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 141
1804
[Name] Glenislay Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account given in the names of Somerville Forrester and James Wedderburn, grant attornies to Sir David Wedderburn, baronet and James Wedderburn Colville, Esq. Account filed by James Blair, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 207
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay  
[Stock] 9  
 

Registered to James Riddock.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Westmd.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] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay  
[Stock] 11  
 

Registered to James Riddock.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co1.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to Walcott & Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot) 14(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Capon as owner.

 
T71/178 97
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)  
[Name] Grove  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay and Grove  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot) 42(F) 38(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Capon as owner.

 
T71/179 Book 7 22
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay and Grove  
[Stock] 47  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay and Grove  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Capon as owner.

 
T71/180 Book 3 46
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Cove and Glenislay  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Cove and Glenislay  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 39(F) 45(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Capon as owner.

 
T71/181 146-147
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Glenislay  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Isley  
[Stock] 4  
 

Registered to Benjamin Capon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29west.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Benjamin Capon as owner.

 
T71/182 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

After the death of Benjamin Capon, the enslaved people in this estate were registered in two tranches: "In the possession of Mary Capon Widow as owner. Previously registered by Benjamin Capon (since deceased) as owner he possessing these Negroes in my right as his Wife", 23 enslaved people; "In the possession of David Finlayson, Jos Capon, William Hullets[?] and W. A. Dickson as executors and trustees to Benjamin Capon Esquire deceased", 57 enslaved people.

 
T71/189 89, 92