Orange Valley Estate

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1774 [SY] - 1824 [EY] → Owner
- 1755 [EY] → Owner
1756 [SY] - 1774 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
1834 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor

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£9,126 4S 1D

Notes

A sugar estate in St Ann, Jamaica. Owned by John Blagrove the elder and bequeathed to his grandson John Blasgrove the younger in 1755. The estate passed to Blagrove the younger's son John Williams Blagrove in 1824.

Estate accounts for Orange Valley 1756-1775 are held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, 'Papers of John Blagrove (1753-1824), West Indian plantation owner, regarding estates in Jamaica', held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1502-gm/443 [accessed 01/07/2016].

The estates of Blagrove the younger appear in the Accounts Produce during his minority (1756-1774) but not after that, with the exception of 1792-1793 when presumably he was on a visit to England. However, Blagrove was largely resident in Britain from 1805 until his death in 1824; the reason for their later absence from the Accounts Produce is unclear.


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1755
[Name] Orange Valley  
 

Bequeathed by John Blagrove the elder to his grandson John Blagrove the younger, a minor at the time.

 
'Papers of John Blagrove (1753-1824), West Indian plantation owner, regarding estates in Jamaica', held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1502-gm/443
1756
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, delivered by order of Messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLachlan, attornies. Account filed by John Rose, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 44
1757
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLaughlan as attorneys to said estate. Account filed by John Rose, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 81
1758
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLaughlan as attorneys to said estate. Account filed by John Rose, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 82
1759
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of Kerr, Malcolm & McLachlan, attorneys. Account filed by John Rose, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 154-155
1760
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of Kerr, Malcolm & McLachlan, attorneys. Account filed by John Rose, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 154
1761
[Name] Orange  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove a minor. Account filed by John Rose as overseer under direction from Kerr, Malcolm and McLachlan as attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 41
1762
[Name] Orange  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove a minor. Account filed by John Rose as overseer under direction from Kerr, Malcolm and McLachlan as attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 117
1763
[Name] Orange  
 

Account filed by James Younas bookeeper on instruction from Peter Ewing Esq. as attroney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 125
1767
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Alexander Campbell on the direction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 59
1768
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Archibald Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 115
1768
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Archibald Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 233
1769
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Alexander Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 206
1770
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Alexander Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 39
1771
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Duncan Campbell as manager on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 176
1771
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by James Galbraith as overseer on the instruction of Archibald Campbell Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 14
1772
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by James Galbraith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 74
1774
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove Esq. Account filed by James Galbraith as overseer on the instruction of Archibald Campbell Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 219
1792
[Number of enslaved people] 324(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 418  
 

Owned by John Blagrove.

 
'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', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at htt
1793
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove Esq on the order of Messrs Campbell and Anderson his attornies. Account filed by Thomas Wallace as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 100
1798
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann as a sugar estate with a cattlemill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 905(Tot)  
[Name] Bellair and Cardiffe Hall etc  
[Stock] 757  
 

Registered to John Blackgrove. Assumed to be Bell Air Pen, Cardiff Hall Pen, Unity Pen and Orange Valley Estate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley etc.  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1810, hence the earlier transcription date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 397(Tot)  
[Name] Orange-Valley  
[Stock] 567  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15ann.htm. The 1816 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1815, hence the earlier evolution date.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 398(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 603  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_02.htm. The 1817 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1816, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 403(Tot) 204(F) 199(M)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Mackay as attorney for John Blagrove, owner of Orange Valley estate.

 
T 71/43 61-70
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 402(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 543  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al06.htm. The 1818 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1817, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 408(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 445  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p07.htm. The 1820 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 417(Tot) 212(F) 205(M)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of George Mackay as attorney to John Blagrove, owner of Orange Valley Estate [44 births, 30 deaths, 1 transportation].

 
T 71/44 58-60
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 414(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 434  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 416(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 510  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1823) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1823_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 417(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of George McKay as attorney to John Blagrove, owner of Orange Valley Estate.

 
T 71/45 93-95
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 424(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 452  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
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] 424(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 460  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
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] 413(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller and Robert H Scott as attorneys to the executors and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased.

 
T 71/46 44-47
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 402(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 360  
 

Registered to the estate of John Blagrove.

 
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] 421(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 322  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
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] 422(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as attorney to the executor and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased on Orange Valley Estate.

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 414(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 322  
 

Registered to John Blagrove.

 
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] 416(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 336  
 

Registered to estate of John Blagrove.

 
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] 431(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley  
[Stock] 327  
 

Registered to estate of John Blagrove.

 
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] 434(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Valley Estate  
 

In the possession of The Honble. William Miller as attorney to the executors and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased, on Orange Valley Estate.

 
T 71/49 76-77
1839
[Name] Orange Valley estate  
[Size] 2004  
 

Registered to the estate of John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Orange Valley pen  
[Size] 1000  
 

Registered to the estate of John Blagrove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Ann.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.