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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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1827 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
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1799 [EA] - → Previous owner
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1816 [EA] - → Owner
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Jericho had been a pimento plantation before Baptist missionaries bought part of the estate. It was used as their ‘station’ from about 1830. Then it became a church meeting in the estate house. It survived but was too small as numbers grew. On 1st August 1835 the foundations for Jericho church were laid. The church became the launch church for other stations in the area. The church survives today and is a national heritage site. The first Baptist missionaries were aware of their debt to the earlier work of the Native or Ethiopian Baptists. In St Thomas in the Vale, the African American George Gibb (d.1826) conducted his pioneering ministry in constant danger, often holding his meetings in forest and swamp areas. Before he died, Gibb transfer many of his members in Spanish Town to Rev James Phillippo. Jericho is labelled “Stanbury’s” in St Thomas in the Vale on the 1804 Robertson map (see the 'Maps' section of the LBS website; "Stanbury's" is at a northerly bend in the Black River). We are grateful to Steven Carter for his assistance in compiling this entry. |
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Cornford, Philip Henry. Missionary reminiscences; or, Jamaica retraced. J. Heaton & Son, 1856, p. 63.
The Voice of Jubilee, p.63.
The Baptist Magazine (1836), p.464.
The Missionary Herald, Pewtress & Company, 1879, pp. 262-3. |
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1780
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)
[Name] Jericho [Size] 1000 “April 22, 1780 - TO BE SOLD, A PENN in the Parish of St. Thomas in the Vale, called JERICHO, (with a commodious Dwelling-House and Out-Offices complete) containing 1000 Acres of Land, 50 of which are in Guinea Grass; 30 in Plantain-Walk; 20 in Negro Grounds. There is on the premises a Coffee and Piemento Walk: the remainder of the land is in common Pasture and Woods; part of the land is well fenced, there is a great quantity of Hard-wood Timber on the premises, fit for any kind of Building, it lays very contiguous to the different sugar estates in that parish; it produces excellent great Corn, and the Guinea grass seed mats in the same manner as it does in Pedroes. There is a fine stream of water running through the land which was never known to be dry. The land binds northerly on the St. Ann's road, southerly on the Rio Cobre; easterly on land belonging to Charles March, Esq. westerly on land belonging to Doctor Robert Page. The above penn will be sold with or without 15 able Field [enslaved people], fit for any work. Any demands against the subscriber will be readily taken in payment. For further particulars, enquire of him on the premises. John Harper Stanbury.”
Royal Gazette of Jamaica, Saturday 22 April 1780, p.15.
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)
[Name] Jericho Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to heirs of John Harpurs Stanbury with 77 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799.
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 49.
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1804
[Name] Stanbury's
Jericho is plotted in St Thomas-in-the-Vale as a Pen marked as “Stanbury’s” in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.
James Robertson’s map of Jamaica, published in 1804 (see Maps section of LBS site).
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)
[Name] Stanbury's J. H. Stanbury was the proprietor of Jericho with 58 enslaved people and 2 stock.
Jamaica Family Search, 1811 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Givings in for 1809.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)
[Name] Stanbury's J. H. Stanbury, deceased, was the proprietor of Jericho with 26 enslaved people and 2 stock.
Jamaica Family Search, 1812 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Givings in for 1811.
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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)
[Name] Jericho Adam Steel was the proprietor of Jericho with 2 enslaved people.
Jamaica Family Search, 1817 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Givings in to the Vestries for 1816.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of an unnamed property [probably Jericho] with 2 enslaved people.
Jamaica Family Search, 1827 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Givings in to the Vestries for 1826.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of an unnamed property [probably Jericho] with 2 enslaved people.
Jamaica Family Search, 1827 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Givings in to the Vestries for 1826.
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 4(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of Jericho with 4 enslaved people.
Jamaica Family Search, 1828 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Given in to the Vestries for 1827.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 5(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of Jericho with 5 enslaved people and 4 stock.
Jamaica Family Search, 1829 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Given in to the Vestries for 1828.
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 8(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of Jericho with 8 enslaved people and 6 stock.
Jamaica Family Search, 1831 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Given in to the Vestries for 1830.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of Jericho with 2 enslaved people.
Jamaica Family Search, 1832 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Given in to the Vestries for 1831.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 1(Tot)
[Name] Jericho John Gunson was the proprietor of Jericho with 1 enslaved person.
Jamaica Family Search, 1833 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Given in to the Vestries for 1832.
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1835
[Name] Jericho
August 1835: Rev Phillippo laid the foundation stones for the chapel at Jericho. “In St Thomas in the Vale a property named Jericho was bought for the purposes of the Mission. The meetings for worship were at first held in the dwelling-house, where 500 people were accustomed to assemble. It soon, however, became necessary to provide larger accommodation; and on the 1st of August, 1835, the foundation of a chapel was laid, which, although when finished capable of holding 1,200 or more, was often insufficient to meet the wants of the crowds who flocked.” The chapel at Jericho was opened on 24 December 1836.
Letter from John Clarke of Jericho, dated 5 August, in The Missionary Herald, CXCVI, April 1835, in The Baptist Magazine, p.160.
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1837
[Name] Jericho
20-22 February and 9-10 April 1837. Rev Sturge of the UK’s Anti-Slavery Society visited the Mission House at Jericho, during his famous Tour of the West Indies in 1837: “we set out this afternoon on a tour of the western part of the island, and arrived late in the evening at Jericho, in St. Thomas in the Vale, where we were hospitably received by John Clarke, the Baptist missionary of this station.”
The Baptist Magazine. J. Burditt and W. Button, 1836. Harvey, Thomas, and Joseph Sturge. The West Indies in 1837, , Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1838, pp.199-201, 327-330.
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1839
[Name] Jericho
Jericho was the mission station for Baptist missionary John Clarke.
Jamaica Family Search, 1839 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale, Civil List – Ecclesiastical Establishment.
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1840
[Name] Jericho
[Size] 62 Baptist missionary John Clarke was the proprietor of Jericho with 62 acres.
Jamaica Family Search, 1840 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale.
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1841
[Name] Jericho
Reverend Cornford was a Baptist missionary in Jamaica for ten years, beginning in January 1841. Jericho became his charge, until fever made it impossible for him to continue and he returned to England. Jericho was 12 miles on horseback from the train to Kingston. “This station, in the midst of the island, nearly equally removed from its opposite shores, but towards the eastern extremity, retained the name it had borne as a pimento plantation before it became mission property.”
Cornford, Philip Henry. Missionary Reminiscences; Or, Jamaica Retraced, J. Heaton & Son, 1856, pp. 1, 63, 98-99.
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1844
[Name] Jericho
[Size] 53 Baptist missionary Reverend E. Hewett was the proprietor of Jericho with 58 acres.
Jamaica Family Search, 1845 Jamaica Almanac, St Thomas in the Vale.
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1875
[Name] Jericho
28 September 1875: Baptist Missionary Rev John Clarke died at 1am and was interred under the pulpit at 5pm.
The Missionary Herald. Pewtress & Company, 1879, pp.107, 331.
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1810 - ????
Enslaved young woman in St Peter, Barbados. Manumitted on the eve of Emancipation. Married a butcher in Speightstown.
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:
'Jericho [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-Vale ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/11735 [accessed 3rd May 2024].
