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Jerusalem

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Associated People (6)

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
1790 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Owner
George Robert Goodin
1799 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
David Fyffe senior
1801 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Overseer
James Grierson
1803 [EA] - 1820 [EY] → Owner
John Wedderburn of Spring Garden and St Marylebone
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
James Colquhoun Grant
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
John Blythe or Blyth

Estate Information (17)

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1763
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a cattle mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1790
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn attorney to George Robert Goodin Esquire. Account filed by James Grierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 348-349 [f.174]
1791
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of John Graham Esquire attorney to George Robert Goodin Esquire. Account filed by James Grierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 154-155 [f.72]
1792
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood and cattle  
 

Under the direction of John Graham attorney to George Robert Goodin Esquire. Account filed by James Grierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 137-138
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Jerusalem  
 

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. 37.
1799
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Westmoreland as a sugar estate with two cattlemills 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] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Patrick Miller and Sam.l Forrester attorneys to David Fyffe Esq. Account filed by Will. Mackwith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 123-124
1800
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of William Brown, Patrick Miller and Samll Forrester, attornies to David Fyffe (?) Esq. Account filed by James Grierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 55-56
1801
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of William Brown, Patrick Miller and Somerville Forrester as Attornies to David Fyffe. Account filed by James Grierson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 27
1803
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of Patrick Miller, Somerville Forrester and James Wedderburn attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account filed by George Keiller as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 141-142
1804
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cart hire, old copper, steer, old steers and cows  
 

Account given in the names of Somerville Forrester, James Wedderburn and James Colquhoun, grant attornies to John Wedderburn, Esq. Account filed by George Keiller, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 211
1807
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn, James Colquhun Grant and John Blyth as attornies to John Wedderburn Esq. Account presented by George Keillie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 163
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Jerusalem  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn. Number of stock given as 26- [last digit torn].

 
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] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Stock] 254  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
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.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot) 164(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Jerusalem Sugar Estate  
 

In the possession of James Colquhoun Grant and John Blyth as attorneys to John Wedderburn Esquire the owner.

 
T71/178 366-369
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] Jerusalem  
[Stock] 213  
 

Registered to John Wedderburn.

 
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
[Name] Jerusalem Estate  
 

In the possession of James Colquhoun Grant and John Blythe as attorneys for John Wedderburn Esquire owner. All enslaved people on this estate have been moved to Mint Estate or Moreland Estate since 1817.

 
T71/179 Book 12 16