Cousin's Cove / Crooks's Cove

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  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1741 [EA] - 1744 [LA] → Previous owner
1756 [EA] - 1756 [LA] → Owner

A minor

1776 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Previous owner
1799 [EA] - → Joint owner
1799 [EA] - → Joint owner

Estate Information (30)

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1741
[Name] Crooks  
[Crop] sugar, pimento, molasses and fustick  
 

Estate of James Crooks deceased. Account filed by Christopher Crooks as manager and overseer of the estate of the said James Crooks.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 122
1742
[Name] Crook's  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Estate of James Crooks deceased. Account filed by Christopher Crooks as manager and overseer of the estate of the said James Crooks.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 215
1743
[Name] Crooks  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Estate of James Crooks deceased. Account filed by Christopher Crooks, overseer and manager of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 95
1744
[Name] Cousins Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Belonging to James Crooks deceased. Account filed by Christopher Crooks overseer of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 102
1756
[Name] Crooks Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, Molasses  
 

Estate of James Crooks, a minor. Account filed by Kenneth MacKenzie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 31-32
1776
[Name] Coussens Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crook Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Smith as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 135
1777
[Name] Coussens Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crook Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Smith as planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 134
1779
[Name] Coussens Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, copper.  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crook Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Smith as planter and overseer. Spelt Cousins Cove in this entry.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 150
1780
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, timber  
 

Property of the Heirs of James Crooks Esquire deceased. Account filed by Thomas Brown, practitioner in physick and surgery and Executor to the above.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 213
1781
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the Heirs of James Crooks Esquire deceased. Account filed by Thomas Brown, practitioner in physick and surgery and Executor to the above.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 213-214
1782
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, corn, timber  
 

Property of the Heirs of James Crooks Esquire deceased. Account filed by Charles Simpson, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 214
1783
[Name] Cousin's Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, corn, timber  
 

The property of the heirs of James Crooks deceased. Account filed by William Brown planter as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 177 f.89
1786
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased; account filed by James McLachlan, planter and overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 149
1787
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased; account filed by James McLachlan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 155-156
1788
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of James Crooke Esquire deceased. Account filed by James McLachlan planter overseer of the parish of Hanover.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 370-371
1789
[Name] Cousin's Cove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of James Crook Esquire deceased. Account filed by James Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 208
1790
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of James Crooks Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 372
1791
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 256-257
1792
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 70-71
1793
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Stewart as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 400-401
1794
[Name] Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer for the period 01/07/1793 to 01/07/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 197
1795
[Name] Cousins Cove sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased under the care of John Crooks Esq. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 233-234
1796
[Name] Cousins Cove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crooks Esq, dec. Account given by John Crooks Esq. Account filed by John Stewart, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Cousins Cove sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased under the care of John Crooks Esq. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 58
1798
[Name] Cousins Cove sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Crooks Esq deceased under the care of John Crooks Esq. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 229
1799
[Name] Crooks Cousins Cove sugar Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Belonging to John and Richard Crooks Esq.s. Account filed by John Stewart as overseer for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 224-225
1799
[Name] Crooks's Cove  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] C. Cove  
 

Registered in Hanover to Jno. and Richd. Crooks with 156 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1800
[Name] Cousins Cove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John and Richard Crooks, in Trust to Richard Dickson Esq. Account filed by Peter Howden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 27-28
1802
[Name] Crooks Cousins Cove Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Filed for 1801-1802. Belonging to John and Richard Crooks Esq. In trust to Richard Dickson Esq. Account filed by Peter Howden as overseer.

 
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