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Associated People (21)

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

1715 [SY] - → Other

Peter Beckford junior

Peter Beckford purchased 1,000 acres of land from the Drax Hall Estate from Charles Drax. This began the interest of the Beckford family in the estate.

1771 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Owner

William Thomas Beckford

- 1762 [EY] → Owner

Samuel Barnett of Redland

1669 [SY] - 1691 [EY] → Owner

William Drax

1691 [SY] - 1721 [EY] → Owner

Charles Drax

1762 [SY] - 1770 [EY] → Owner

Alderman William Beckford

1734 [EA] - → Owner

Samuel Reynolds

Samuel Reynolds of Drax Hall in his will made in 1734 and proved in 1737 laid claim to ownership of all the personal and real estate of Colonel Drax. His ownership or management appears to have been contested in E 134/5Geo2/Trin10
William Prestley, Esq., and his wife Meliora, William Smith, Esq., and Dorothy his wife. v. Roger Tublay, Samuel Reynolds, and others.: Value, management, care, and disposition, &c., of the real estate of Charles Drax, Esq., deceased, in the Island of Jamaica. Mortgage, &c., &c. [The names of Saml. Wells Reynolds (defendant's son), Dr. Price, and Peter Beckford, are mentioned.] [See also 6 Geo. 2., Hil., No.7.]: London; Jamaica; (W. Indies). Date: 5 Geo 2.

1752 [EA] - 1752 [LA] → Previous owner

William Barnett I

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney

Isaac Higgin

1820 [EA] - → Attorney

Alexander Kidston

1821 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner

John Pink

1835 [EA] - → Annuitant

John Hiatt Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

Emma Susannah Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

William Hyde Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

Caroline Hall Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

George Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

Emily Lawes Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

Martha Pink

1835 [EA] - → Trust beneficiary

Eliza Ann Pink

1835 [EA] - → Executor

Bartholomew Ibbott Williams

1835 [EA] - → Executor

Colin MacKenzie 5th of Mountgerald

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Ann 339 (Drax Hall Estate)

£7,166 4S 5D

Notes

In 1757 sugar production was 126 tons and rum 31 puncheons but by 1832 that had increased to 300 tons and 140 puncheons. In 1832 there were 275 enslaved people working at Drax Hall. As a coastal estate Drax Hall also produced pimento as a secondary crop. The increased productivity over the period was in part a result of improvement to the mill. There were several wind mills on the estate as well as a cattle mill. By the end of the eighteenth century a new water mill increased efficiency and is visible on the Robertson map of 1804. This was positioned in the centre of Drax Hall cane fields. The water was channeled from St. Ann Great River. The overseer's house was called Guildhall and was located towards the coast to the far side of the works - this building was plotted on the 1851 plan of the estate. The 'negro grounds' were located in the same place in both the 1758 and 1851 plans - on the hilly margins of the estate, close to the provision grounds.

The Sewell family later purchased Drax Hall Estate and today the property is in the hands of Drax Hall Limited, a subsidiary of the Gulf and Western Corporation.

Sources

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.99-102

Douglas V. Armstrong, 'An Afro-Jamaican Slave Settlement: Archaeological Investigations at Drax Hall,, in Thomas A. Singleton, The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life (Orlando Academic Press, 1985), pp.261-87

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Estate Information (71)

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1669

Estate founded by William Drax.

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.99

1691

Estate passed into the hands of Charles Drax.

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.99

1713

Sale of 400 acres of land from the estate to Dr. Thomas Price.

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.99

1715

Sale of 1000 acres of land from the estate to Peter Beckford (1674-1735).

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.99

1752

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton wool and pimento

Estate late of William Barnett Esq. deceased now under the direction of Dr. Rogers Davies one of the executors to the said William Barnett Esq. deceased. Account filed by Nathaniel Butler.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 150

1753

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton and pimento

Account filed by John Smith, planter.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 173

1754

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Size] 4000

Drax Hall Estate was listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as 4000 acres of land in St Ann (no owner's name given).

'A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at .

1758

[Size] 3400

Drax Hall Estate was surveyed by George Wilson in 1758 and Wilson's plan indicated the estate covered 3,400 acres. Higman points out that this included the 600 acres sold to Thomas Price and Bartholomew Douce.

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.100

1761

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Account filed by William Bolt bookeeper. Estate under the care and direction of Richard Lewing and Robert Mason.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 21

1762

Sale of the remainder of Drax Hall Estate to William Beckford (1709-1770).

B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.100

1762

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Account filed by William Bolt bookeeper. Estate under the care and direction of Richard Lewing and Robert Mason.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 21

1763

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Account filed by William Bolt bookeeper. Estate under the care and direction of Richard Lewing and Robert Mason.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 21

1767

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Simon Atkinson as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 182

1768

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Simon Atkinson as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 182

1769

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Belonging to William Beckford Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Simon Atkinson as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 184

1770

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento

Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esq. of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account filed by Simon Atkinson as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 18

1771

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento

Now in possession and under the care and dircetion of John Gordon Esq.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 174

1772

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento

Now in possession and under the care and dircetion of John Gordon Esq. Account filed by John McDonald as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 17

1773

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento

Now in possession and under the care and dircetion of George Gordon Esq. Account filed by John McDonald as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 62

1774

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum and pimento

Now in possession and under the care and dircetion of George Gordon Esq. Account filed by John McDonald as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 215

1775

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

Belonging to the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Macdonald as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 17

1778

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

The property of the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Murdock as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 102

1779

[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot)

Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148

1779

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

The property of the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Joseph Tulloch as book keeper.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 105

1780

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

The property of the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Joseph Tulloch as book keeper.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 109

1781

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar and rum

The property of the heirs of William Beckford Esq. deceased. Account filed by Joseph Tulloch as book keeper.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 110

1782

[Name] Draxhall
[Crop] sugar, rum

Account filed by Robert Tulloh as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 165 f.83

1784

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum

Property of William Beckford Esq; account filed by Robert Tulloch,overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 162

1785

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Crop] pimento, sugar

Account filed by Gilbert Mackleraith, bookkeeper.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 59

1786

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento

Account filed by Patrick Hall, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 147

1786

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento

In the possession of William Beckford Esq; account filed by Patrick Grant as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 176

1787

[Name] Drax Hall
[Crop] sugar, rum

Account filed by Gilbert Mackleraith of the parish of St Ann.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 37-38

1788

[Name] Drax Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, cattle

Account filed by Gilbert Mackleraith of St Ann.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 96-97

1789

[Name] Draxhall
[Crop] sugar, rum

Account filed by Gilbert Mackleraith.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 249 f.126

1790

[Name] Draxhall
[Crop] sugar, rum

Account filed by Gilbert Mackleraith.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 240

1791

[Name] Draxhall
[Crop] sugar, rum

Account filed by George Grant.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 148-149

1792

[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)
[Name] Drax Hall
[Stock] 133

Owned by William Beckford.

'A list of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at

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People of Interest

Coco Sandiford

1810 - ????

Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor 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.

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