Riverhead Farm or Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (1)

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
1775 [EA] - → Owner

Estate Information (20)

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1775
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, fustick, logwood  
 

Estate being the property and trust estate of Robert Home Gordon, a minor, under the care and direction of George Gordon Esq. as acting executor and trustee who filed the account. The estates of Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead and Gordon Hall were listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 48
1776
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] Pimento and livestock  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor, under the care and direction of George Gordon Esq. as acting executor who filed the account. The estates of Home Castle, Riverhead Pen, Gordon Hall Pen and Hayfield Penwere listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 98
1778
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor. Account filed by George Gordon.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 51
1779
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor and under the care and direction of John Grant Esq. as acting executor. Account filed by Peter Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 177
1779
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Robert Home Gordon, a minor and under the care and direction of John Grant Esq. as acting executor. Account filed by Peter Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 190
1781
[Name] Riverhead Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead & Gordon Hall planatations all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 70-71
1782
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, pimento, fustick, cattle, horses, pasturage  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Lewis Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead & Gordon Hall plantations all filed together. Crops listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184-185
1783
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, fustick, logwood  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. The estates of Home Castle, Dornock, Riverhead and Gordon Hall were listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 157-8
1785
[Name] River Head Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, River Head and Golden Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 70
1786
[Name] River Head Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle, Dornock, River Head and Golden Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 105-106
1787
[Name] River Head  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Peter Grant, planter. Home Castle Estate, Dornock, River Head, Gordon Hall Penns all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 124
1787
[Name] Riverhead Pen  
[Crop] cattle, some horses and mules  
 

Account filed by Joseph Tulloh planter. Dornoch, Riverhead and Gordon Hall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 189-190
1788
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] Pimento, horses, mules, cattle  
 

Account filed by Joseph Tulloch planter. Dornock, Riverhead and Gordonhall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 221 f.120
1789
[Name] Riverhead Estate  
[Crop] Pimento, horses, mules, cattle  
 

Account filed by Joseph Tulloch planter. Dornock, Riverhead and Gordonhall Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 313-314
1790
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] Pimento, cattle, horses, mules  
 

Account filed by Joseph Tulloch planter. Dornoch Riverhead and Gordon Hall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 283-284
1791
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] Pimento, cattle, horses, mules  
 

Account filed by Joseph Tulloch planter. Dornoch Riverhead and Gordon Hall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 303-304
1792
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] cattle, horses, mules  
 

Account filed by William Dow, planter. Dornoch Riverhead and Gordon Hall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 104-105
1793
[Name] Riverhead  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Account filed by William Dow, planter. Dornock Riverhead and Gordon Hall Penns filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 359-360
1798
[Name] Riverhead Penn  
[Crop] asses, horses, cattle, hire of enslaved people, pasturage  
 

Account filed by John Gillespie for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 229
1803
[Name] Riverhead Farm  
[Crop] Hire and sale of livestock and pasturage  
 

Account filed by Ivie? Logan, overseer.

 
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