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Baulk

Jamaica | Westmoreland

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Associated People (2)

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
1784 [EA] - 1791 [LA] → Owner
James Margetson

Margetson was bankrupt in 1788 and subsequently his assignees took on the estate.

1795 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Owner
Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn formerly Scrymgeour, de jure 7th Earl of Dundee

Estate Information (19)

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1784
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to James Macgeston (sp?). Account filed by James Brown as overseer on the orer of James Kerr Esq. as acting attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 215-6
1786
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of James Mongetson Esq; account filed by William Foot, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 199
1787
[Name] Baulk Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Margeston Esq; account filed by William Foot attorney for the Baulk plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 129-130
1787
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Margetson Esq under the care and drection of William Foot and Samuel Jeffries his attornies; account filed by William Foot attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 216
1788
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to James Margetson Esquire under the care and direction of William Foot and Samuel Jeffries his attornies. Account filed by William Walcott as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 373 f.206
1789
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the care and direction of William Foot and Samuel Jeffries attornies to James Margetson from 01/01/1789 to 15/04/1789 and thereafter to 31/12/1789 under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries, John Henckell and Alexander McLeod attornies of the estate of James Margetson a bankrupt. Account filed by John Scott as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 194
1790
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estates of James Magetson under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries, John Henchell and Alexander Macleod attornies to Messrs Rolleston, Brand, Colleteor [?], Green and Saville assignees to the said estate. Account filed by John Scott as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 319 [f.159]
1791
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of James Margetson under the care and direction of Samuel Jeffries attorney for his assignees. Account filed by said Samuel Jeffries. Accounts filed for 30/12/1790 to 01/12/1791.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 163 [f.76]
1795
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn Esq attorney to Henry Scrymgearer [Scrymgeour ?] Esq. Account filed by Alexander Rose as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 80-81
1796
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Henry Scrymgeour, Esq. Account given by James Wedderburn, attorney. Account filed by John McFaden, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by James Wedderburn, attorney to Henry Scrymgour. Account filed by John McFaden, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 112
1798
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of John Graham, William Fyffe and John Wedderburn attornies to Henry Scrymgeour Esq. Account filed by Fleming Hewit as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 178
1799
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Westmoreland as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the direction of Fleming Hewitt Esq attorney to Henry Scrymgeour Esq. Account filed by David Smith as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 120
1801
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of Fleming Hewitt, Ptk Miller and Sam Forrester Esquires, attornies to Henry Serying (?) Esq. Account filed by David Small as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 54
1801
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the direction of Fleming Hewett, Patrick Miller and Somerville Forrester, Attornies to Henry Scrymgeour. Account filed by David Small as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 16
1803
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Under the direction of Patrick Miller and Somerville Forrester attornies to Henry Scrymgeour Esq. Account filed by David Small as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 139
1804
[Name] Baulk Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, old steers  
 

Account given in the names of Somerville Forrester, James Wedderburn and James Colquhoun Grant attornies to Henry Scrymgour, Esq. Account filed by David Small, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 212
1807
[Name] Baulk  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn, James C. Grant and John Blyth as attornies to Harry Seymour Esq. [= Henry Scrymgeour]. Account presented by Joseph Shepherd as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 159