Associated People (11) |
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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:
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1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
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- 1829 [EY] → Trustee
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- 1760 [EY] → Owner
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1762 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
'A minor' 1762-1773 |
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1774 [EA] - → Not known
Listed as proprietor but probably trustee. |
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Possibly joint owner, but more likely owner of enslaved people leased to this estate. |
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£3,569 4S 4D
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£294 14S 2D
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Estate Information (57) |
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1762
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the instruction of George Robert Goodin Esq as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 84
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1763
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Bryce as overseer on the instruction of George Robert Goodin Esq as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 84
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1764
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by Edward Archer as overseer on the instruction of George Robert Goodin Esq as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 92
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1765
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Buchanan as overseer on the instruction of George Robert Goodin Esq as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 165
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1766
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Wight as bookeeper.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 54
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1767
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by Robert Lang as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 58
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1768
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Wight as bookeeper.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 111
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1769
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by Robert Lang as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 162
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1769
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Otley as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 219
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1771
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Ottey as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 63
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1772
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Ottey as overseer. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawny created from land in St. James in 1770.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 216
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1773
[Name] New Canaan
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to George William Ricketts Esq. a minor. Account filed by William Ottey as overseer. Formerly in the parish of St. James but Trelawny created from land in St. James in 1770.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 57
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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)
[Name] New Canaan [Crop] Sugar [Stock] 177 Listed as belonging to Thomas Reid Jnr. & Smith with 5 men bearing arms and 1 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 123 hogsheads of sugar.
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
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1791
[Name] New Canaan
The New Canaan estate was the subject of the 1791 marriage settlement of George William Ricketts then of Bishops Sutton, and Laetitia Mildmay of Shawford House, both in the county of Southampton. Neither the Beckfords nor Hinchley appear in that deed as trustees, but in the papers of the Godwin Austen family of Shalford is a deed concerning the appointment of Francis Love Beckford senior and junior, and Richard Hinckley [sic] as new trustees in place of Charles Nicholas Pallmer in 1829.
Partial transcription by Ann Marie Grant 01/08/2008 of the marriage settlement of 02/11/1791 from the Hampshire Record Office, Heathcote family papers, 18M54/B1/8/1 at
People of InterestElizabeth Metcalfe1785 - 4th Jan 1846 Yorkshire-born wife of the Acting Governor of Dominica in the 1800s. Documents of InterestWindsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document. © Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - 果冻影院 Department of History 2024
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