| Description | Content Advice: This file includes items relating to enslavement, as well as offensive terms or terms that have changed meaning over time. In some cases these terms are included in our catalogue descriptions in order to provide information about the content and nature of the source.
1 Document entitled 'List of Slaves on Mounthindmost Estate the 1st of January 1817. It comprises a list of enslaved people, categorised by the form of work or 'gang'; a summary of the number of people in each form of work or gang; accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of Slaves on Mount Hindmost estate…', including details of births and deaths; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease of Cattle and Mules on Mt Hindmost'.
2 Bound document entitled 'Mount Hindmost List of Slaves, on the 1st January 1819 with Increase and Decrease of Slaves & Stock from 1st January to 31st December 1818'. It comprises a list of enslaved people, including details of each person's 'Original Names', 'Christian Names', age, 'Occupation' and the enslaver's assessment of their 'Condition'; accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of slaves on Mounthindmost Estate from 1st January to 31st December 1818', including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' of livestock.
3 Document entitled 'List of Slaves and Stock on Mounthindmost Estate at 1st January 1820 with Increase and Decrease From 1st January to 31st December 1819'. It comprises a list of enslaved people, including details of each person's 'Original Names', 'Christian Names', age, 'Occupation' and the enslaver's assessment of their 'Condition'; accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of slaves on Mounthindmost Plantation from the 1st January to the 31st of December 1819', including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people; a list entitled 'Slaves of Colour on Mounthindmost Plantation', including each person's name, age and the racial classification assigned to them by the enslaver; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' of livestock.
4 Bound document entitled '1st January 1826 List of Slaves on Mounthindmost Estate with Increase and Decrease of Slaves & Stock from 1st January to 31st December 1825'. It comprises a list of enslaved people, including details of each person's 'Former Names', 'Present Names', age, and 'Occupation', followed by the enslaver's 'Remarks'; accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of Slaves on Mounthindmost Estate…' including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' of livestock.
5 Bound document entitled 'List of Slaves on Mounthindmost estate, January 1. 1831'. It comprises a list of enslaved people (with some described as 'Prentice' [apprentice?]), divided between 'Males' and 'Females', and including details of each person's name, age, 'Country' [of origin], 'Colour', 'Occupation', and the enslaver's assessment of their 'Condition'; a 'Remark' concerning Frances Donaldson and her daughter Jean Briton 'are about to be manumitted' [released from enslavement]; accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of Slaves on Mounthindmost…', including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' of livestock.
6 Bound document entitled 'List of Slaves belonging to Mounthindmost estate on January 1. 1832'. It comprises a list of enslaved people, divided between 'Males' and 'Females', and including details of each person's name age, 'Country' [of origin], 'Colour', and the enslaver's assessment of their 'Condition', followed by 'Remarks' (it includes references to four 'Runaway' [self-liberated] men who 'joined the rebels during the late revolt); accounts entitled 'Increase and Decrease of Mounthindmost estate's Slaves for 1831', including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people, as well as people who had been released from enslavement; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' of livestock.
7 Bound document entitled 'A List of Slaves on Mount Hindmost Estate, in the parish of Clarendon, on the first day of January One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-three'. It comprises a list of enslaved people on the Mount Hindmost estate in 1832, including details of each person's name, age, 'Country' [of origin], 'Colour', 'Occupation', and the enslaver's assessment of their 'Condition' accounts entitled 'Increase of Slaves for the Year 1832' and 'Decrease of Slaves for the Year 1832', including details of the births and deaths of enslaved people; and accounts of the 'Increase' and 'Decrease' in livestock.
8 Document entitled 'List of apprentices on Mount Hindmost Estate on 1st Jan[uar]y 1835'. It comprises a list of apprentices [formerly enslaved people who, following the Slavery Abolition Act, had to continue working for their former enslavers under an imposed apprenticeship system without compensation for a set number of years], including details of each person's name, age, 'Country' [of origin], 'Occupation', and an assessment of their 'Condition'; a list entitled 'Children on Mount Hindmost Estate declared free under the Abolition Act 1834', including details of the names and ages of 19 children; and accounts entitled 'Increase & Decrease of Apprentices from 1st Jan[uar]y 1854 to 31 Dec[embe]r of same year', including details of births and deaths of apprentices.
9 Document entitled 'List of Apprentices - Increase and Decrease of Stock for 1835'. It comprises a list of apprentices [formerly enslaved people who, following the Slavery Abolition Act, had to continue working for their former enslavers under an imposed apprenticeship system without compensation for a set number of years] including details of each person's name, age, form of work, and remarks about their health; a list entitled 'List of Free Children', including details of the names and ages of 18 children; accounts entitled 'Increase & Decrease of Apprentices during the year 1835', including details of births and deaths of apprentices; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' in livestock.
10 Document entitled 'Apprentices on Mount Hindmost Estate 1st January 1837'. It comprises a list of apprentices [formerly enslaved people who, following the Slavery Abolition Act, had to continue working for their former enslavers under an imposed apprenticeship system without compensation for a set number of years], including details of each person's name, age, country of origin, skin colour, form of work, and remarks about their health; accounts entitled 'Decrease of Apprentices on M[oun]t Hindmost Estate during the year 1836', including details of deaths and a purchase of an apprenticeship; a list entitled 'Free Children 1st Jan[uar]y 1837, including the names and ages of 19 children; a note concerning the birth of a child; and accounts of the 'Increase and Decrease' in livestock.
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