Valley Minor

Estate Details


Associated People (10)

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
1792 [EA] - → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Previous owner
1798 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Executor
1801 [EA] - → Overseer
1803 [EA] - → Overseer
1806 [EA] - → Overseer

Tentative link with this John Hawthorne.

1823 [EA] - → Other
1823 [EA] - → Other
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - → Other

Associated Claims (1)

£3,624 3S 9D

Estate Information (19)

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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 48  
 

Owned by Robert Hawthorne.

 
'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... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.
1798
[Name] Valley Minor Pimento Walk  
[Crop] coffee, pimento  
 

Account filed by James Fraser acting executor to the estate of Robert Hawthorn deceased for the period 10/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 227
1799
[Name] Valley Minor Pimento Walk  
[Crop] pimento, coffee, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by James Fraser as acting executor to the estate of Robert Hawthorn deceased for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 175
1800
[Name] Valley Minor Plantation  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people  
 

Belonging to the Estate of Robert Hawthorn deceased. Account filed by James Fraser, Acting Exor for the Estate of Robert Hawthorn deceased. Accounts filed for 1799-1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 132
1801
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Crop] Coffee and piemento (?)  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Charles Brown as overseer (?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 217-218
1803
[Name] Valley Minor Pimento Walk  
[Crop] Pimento, coffee, hire of enslaved people, waiting boy hire  
 

Owners name blank. Account filed in the name of John Thorn, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 40
1806
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Crop] Pimento, coffee and hire of enslaved people.  
 

Account filed by John Hawthorn as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 144-145
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot) 27(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Phillips Utten as owner. No previous registration; bought from various vendors including John Alexander as administrator of the estate of James Simpson.

 
T71/45 817-819
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot) 27(F) 40(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Phillips Utten as owner [majority of increase in enslaved people by purchase at various dated sales of Deputy Marshal and Collecting Constable from various named executors of the estates of James Simpson, Richard Harris, Oswald Brodie, Matthew Pybus, Joseph Brown, Mary Samuels etc.

 
T 71/45 817-819
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 51  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Alamanc (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Phillips Utten as owner [34 enslaved people sold to William Frater; some removed by devise as registered in Trelawny as property of Elizabeth N Utten and removed; many other enslaved people bought at Collecting Constable and Deputy Marshal sales in Trelawny and St Ann's from John W Fleming, John James, Richard Harris, John W Walton etc.].

 
T 71/46 862-865
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 72  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 91  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Phillips Utten as owner [increase in enslaved people by purchase].

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 70  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 70  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Valley Minor  
[Stock] 66  
 

Registered to James P. Utten.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Phillips Utten as owner in his own right [increase of enslaved people by purchase].

 
T 71/50 759