Hope River

Estate Details


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
1774 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Owner

Estate Information (20)

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1774
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Collard Esq. Account filed by Edward Locke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 23
1775
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Collard Esq. Account filed by Edward Locke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 17-8
1776
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James McDonogh. On p.13 gives the decrease in the population during the period of McDonogh's "overseership" as 9 enslaved people, this included a child called Tom who was killed by the water mill.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 11 and 13
1777
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James McDonogh. On p.13 gives the decrease in the population during the period of McDonogh's "overseership" as 9 enslaved people, this included a child called Tom who was killed by the water mill.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 11 and 13
1778
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Locke.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 11
1779
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Bond. On p.13 gives the enslaved population as 19 men and 19 women.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 11 and 13
1780
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Bond. On p.13 gives the enslaved population as 27 men and 23 women.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 11 and 13
1780
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Collard Esq. Account filed by Robert Simmons. Unusally the crop account gave the number of enslaved people on the plantation as 45 - 23 men and 22 women.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 12
1781
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to John Collard Esq. Account filed by Robert Simmons. Unusally the crop account gave the number of enslaved people on the plantation as 51 - 25 men and 26 women. Another entry on p.15 named John Mann as the overseer for Hope River for 1781-2.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 12 and 15
1782
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Mann as overseer. There was an increase in the enslaved population by 2 births and a decrease by 3 deaths including an instance of a woman named Kitty who died "being mad and obstructed."

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 14-15
1783
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Simmons as book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 10
1783
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Concanen as overseer. The entry gave the number of enslaved people on the estate as 48.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 18
1784
[Name] Hope River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Concanen as overseer. The entry gave the number of enslaved people on the estate as 50.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 18
1785
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Collard/Colland Esq; account filed by Thomas Concannon, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 80
1785
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock  
 

Account filed for 1 Jan to 12 Jun 1785. Belonging to John Collard Esq; signed by Thomas Concannon; includes the increase and decrease of both stock and enslaved people.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 38-40
1787
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 1786-1787. Edward Neall of St Andrew, Jamaica, planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 38
1788
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Neall as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 117 [f.59]
1789
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Edward Neall as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 401-402
1790
[Name] Hope River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Collard deceased from 01/01/1790 to 03/06/1790, following which it was sold to the Duchess of Chandos. Account filed by Edward Neall. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 03/06/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 199 [f.101]
1790
[Name] Hope River Estate  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Collard deceased. Account filed by Edward Neall as overseer; list of increase and decease of numbers of enslaved people and stock. Accounts filed for 01/01/1790 to 31/05/1790.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 200-201