Associated People (12) |
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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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1811 [SY] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Possibly not bought till after 1816. |
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1770 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Not known
Identified variously as executor (1770), or the estate was described as 'Come into possession' of, or filed by, Philip Ph. Livingston (1773-1781). |
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1770 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Previous owner
The Crop Accounts noted that the estate was in the possession of estate of George Paplay, deceased. |
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1783 [EA] - 1784 [LA] → Owner
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1788 [SY] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
The start-date of the Hospital's ownership of Golden Vale is variously given as 1788 and 1793 in different sources. Hakewill states the estate was sold in 1811 but a motion in Parliament suggests it was still in the Hospital's ownership in 1816. |
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1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Not known
Registered by John Milligan as attorney of Milligan and Mitchell, who were possibly mortgagees or mortgagees-in-possession |
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1807 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Not known
Registered by John Milligan as attorney of Milligan and Mitchell, who were possibly mortgagees or mortgagees-in-possession. David Mitchell had died in 1804, before the registration. |
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1811 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
Possibly not bought until after 1816. |
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Receiver
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1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£6,779 7S 3D
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Notes |
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The estate was located 5 miles up the Rio Grande in the hills behind Port Antonio. Higman noted that the estate was similar to Williamfield in St. Thomas in the Vale. Cane land was limited to the flats along the Rio grande. The hills on the estate rose up to 1000 feet. The woods and hills had the provision grounds on it. There was a mill house, trash house, boiling house, curing house and distilling house. The mill was water powered carrying water from the Back Rio grande. The cane fields were gridded. |
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B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.114-116 |
Estate Information (45) |
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1770
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the estate of George Paplay Esq. deceased. Account filed by Philip Philip Livingston as one of the executors of George Paplay deceased.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 184
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1772
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the estate of George Paplay Esq. deceased and come into the hands of Philip Philip Livingston and Charles Dawes Junior. Account filed by Charles Dawes Junior as one of the executors of George Paplay deceased.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 23
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1773
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the estate of George Paplay Esq. deceased and come into the hands of Philip Philip Livingston and Charles Dawes Junior. Account filed by Charles Dawes Junior as one of the executors of George Paplay deceased.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 197
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1779
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the estate of George Paplay Esq. deceased and come into the hands of Philip Philip Livingston.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 202
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1780
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Estates of George Paplay Esquire deceased. Account filed by Philip Philip Livingston Esquire. Maverlys, Sunning Hill, Golden Vale, Friendship all filed together. Crops listed separately.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 8
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1781
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum The different plantations belonging to the Estate of George Papley (sp?) Esquire Deceased. Account filed by Philip Philip Livingston. Mavely's, Sunning Hill, Golden Vale all filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 112
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1783
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Edward Manning Paplay Esq. Account filed by Bartholomew Waldren as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 102
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1784
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of Edward Manning Paplay Esq. Account filed by Bartholomew Waldren as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 180
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1786
[Name] Golden Vale Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 182
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1786
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by Will. Burke.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 149
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1788
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 134
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1789
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by William Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 395 f.195
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1790
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 299 [f.149]
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1791
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 352-353 [f.171]
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1792
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 180
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1793
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 26/07/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 46
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1794
[Name] Golden Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke a overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 94
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1795
[Name] Golden Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by William Burke as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 236
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1796
[Name] Golden Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum. Account filed by William Burke.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Golden Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Owner not given. Account filed by John Archer, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 222
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1798
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in Portland in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a watermill.
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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Archer late overseer on Golden Vale Plantation.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 165
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1800
[Name] Golden Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Henry Birkett as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 177
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1807
[Name] Golden Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum In possession of John Milligan as attorney to Messers Milligan & Mitchell. Account filed by George Thomson as overseer. Filed for 1807 (25th July-31st Dec).
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 26-27
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 14 Registered to Greenwich Hospital.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Portld.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1810
David MacNae surveyed Golden Vale in 1810 when the estate was the property of the Greenwich Hospital, London.
B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.114
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 121 Registered to Greenwich Hospital.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 500(Tot)
[Crop] Sugar The estate was sold to Alexander Kinloch and John Steel according to James Hakewill.
B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p.114
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 504(Tot)
[Name] Golden-Vale [Stock] 354 Registered to Steel and Kinloch.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 516(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 450 Registered to Kinloch & Steel.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 475(Tot) 205(F) 270(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Alexander Kinlock and John Steel as joint owners.
T71/151 215-223
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 489(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 193 Registered to Kinloch & Steel.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 480(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Steel as owner with the Heirs of Alexander Kinloch Esq decd.
T71/152 81
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 475(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 305 Registered to William Lambie, receiver.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 483(Tot) 223(F) 260(M)
[Name] Golden Vale Estate In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.
T71/153 85-86
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 451(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 281 Registered to William Lambie, receiver.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al14.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 451(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 273 Registered to William Lambie, receiver.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 451(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale Estate In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery.
T71/154 84-85
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 440(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 123 Registered to William Lambie, receiver.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 424(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 116 Registered to William Lambie, receiver.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29portgeorg.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 407(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale Estate In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery for Golden Vale Estate.
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 400(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 91 Registered to Young and Sims.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 386(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 98 Registered to Young and Sims.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32port.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot)
[Name] Golden Vale [Stock] 88 Registered to Young and Sims.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Portld.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 369(Tot) 184(F) 185(M)
[Name] Golden Vale Estate In the possession of William Lambie as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery for Golden Vale Estate.
T71/157 144
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Associated documents (1) |
1787 - 1861
Enslaved boy on Unity Valley Pen, Jamaica. Manumitted in 1795 by David Barclay and removed to Philadelphia, with 29 other freed persons from the estate, where he was placed under the care of Society for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks.
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 - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Golden Vale Estate [ Jamaica | Portland ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/1617 [accessed 19th April 2024].
