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Somerset Hall

Jamaica | St Dorothy

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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
1793 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Previous owner
Jeremiah Barton

Estate Information (10)

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1742
[Name] Somersett Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, brass, pewter and copper  
 

Account filed by James Goddard Esq. one of the attorneys of the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 39-40
1753
[Name] Somersett Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum and molasses  
 

Account filed by Thomas Duar as book keeper of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 156
1756
[Name] Somerset Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Joseph Aberry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 26
1758
[Name] Somerset Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and direction of Zachary and Nathaniel Bayly and compant. Account filed by Joseph Aberry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 86
1759
[Name] Somerset Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Shipped by Zachary & Nathaniel Bayly & Co. Account filed by Jospeh Aberry, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 131
1760
[Name] Somerset Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Edward Higgins, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 179
1761
[Name] Somerset Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Edward Higgins, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 214-215
1762
[Name] Somerset Hall  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Juggins.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 29
1793
[Name] Somerset Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of J. Barton Esq deceased. Account filed by John Denny [?] planter of the parish of St Dorothy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 26
1798
[Name] Somerset-Hall  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Dorothy 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.