Vale Royal

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Associated People (8)

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
- 1847 [LA] → Owner
1787 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1789 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£4,973 4S 1D

Notes

Absentee-owned from at least 1811.


Estate Information (30)

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1787
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Pepper Thomson; account filed by Job Dale. Maria Bueno,Lancaster, Vale Royal Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 97
1787
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account filed for 1 Dec 1786 - 1787. Belonging to Thomas Pepper Thomson Esq, shipped and sold by Messrs Mitchell & Daggers; signed by Job Dale. Maria Bueno, Lancaster and Vale Royal Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 40
1788
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Pepper Thomson Esquire sold by William Daggers Esquire. Account filed by Job Dale.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 267-268 f.143
1789
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Pepper Thomson Esquire disposed of by William Daggers Esquire attorney to the trustees of his estates. Account filed by said William Daggers.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 278 [duplicated 282]
1797
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Thomas Pipper? Thompson, Esq. Account filed by Isaac Gibbs, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 146
1799
[Name] Vale-Royal  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Trelawny as a sugar estate with a watermill 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.
1800
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Pepper Thompson Esq under the direction of Robert Marshall Esq his attorney. Account filed by Joseph Whittaker as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 64
1801
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Thomas Pepper Thompson Esq and under the direction of Robert Marshall his Attorney. Account filed by Joseph Whittaker as overseer Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 91
1803
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Thomas Pepper Thompson Esq under the direction of Nathan Sutton his attorney. Account filed by Joseph Whittaker as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 178-179
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 170  
 

Registered to James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 1  
 

Registered to James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)  
[Name] Vale-Royal  
[Stock] 159  
 

Registered to heirs of James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 292(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 172  
 

Registered to T. P. Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 289(Tot) 140(F) 149(M)  
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
 

In the possession of James Thompson as Attorney of Thomas P Thompson the owner.

 
T71/229 2331-2342
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 191  
 

Registered to heirs of James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 283(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 29  
 

Registered to heirs of James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
 

In the possession of James Thompson as Attorney to Thomas P Thompson the Owner.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 211  
 

Registered to heirs of James Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to heirs of Henry Shirley.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
 

In the possession of Samuel Hilton as attorney of the Trustees of Thomas Pepper Thompson deceased.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 163  
 

Registered to Thomas P. Thompson trustees.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 156  
 

Registered to Thomas P. Thompson trustees.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal Estate  
 

In the possession of Samuel Hilton as Attorney to the Trustees of Thomas Pepper Thompson deceased.

 
T71/234 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to Thomas P. Thompson trustees.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to trustee to heirs of Thomas P. Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
 

In the possession of Charles McKenzie as Attorney to the Trustees of Thomas Pepper Thompson deceased.

 
T71/240 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 10  
 

Registered to trustee to heirs of T. P. Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to Thomas P. Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Vale Royal  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to heirs of Thomas P. Thompson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 259(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Carey and Charles McKenzie as Attornies to the trustees of Thomas Pepper Thompson deceased.

 
T71/241 79