Golden Grove

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Associated People (5)

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
1809 [SY] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
1811 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1784 [EA] - 1809 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Other

'Miss Ann Jarrett' was shown as owner of a group of enslaved people on Golden Grove and Kent 1817-1823. Tentatively associated with Anne Gooch (nee Jarrett), the daughter of Herbert Newton Jarrett IV and Anne Jarrett (nee Stephens).

1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Guardian

Associated Claims (1)

£5,708 9S 1D

Estate Information (44)

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1784
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by Alexander Gibb as overseer. Account presented in Trelawny but no indication is given of the location of the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 185
1788
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 317-318 f.168
1789
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson attorney for the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 439 f.217
1790
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Alexander Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 417-418 [f.208]
1791
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Jarrett Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 252-253
1792
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Jarrett Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Gibb as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 299 [f.150]
1793
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper and lead  
 

Property of John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by William Lowrie as planter for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 105-106
1794
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, old copper  
 

Account filed by William Lowrie for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 164-165
1795
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by William Christie,. bookkeeper of estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 16
1796
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum,steers, heifers, calves  
 

Belonging to John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by Ewen Cameron, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, steers  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by Ewen Cameron, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 196
1798
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire  
 

Property of John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by Ewen Cameron planter for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 150
1799
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Ewen Cameron overseer. The property of John Jarrett Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 135-136
1799
[Name] Golden-Grove  
[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] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ewen Cameron as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 45
1801
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not recorded. Account filed by Ewan Cameron as overseer. Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 157
1803
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ewan Cameron for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 81
1804
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owners name not given. Account filed in the name of Ewan Cameron, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 84
1807
[Name] Golden Groove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Ewen Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 70
1808
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and hire of enslaved people.  
 

Account filed by Ewen Cameron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 196-197
1809
 

Bequeathed to Herbert Newton Jarrett IV by his father John Jarrett II.

 
PROB 11/1504/114
1809
 

Bequeathed to John Jarrett III by his father Herbert Newton Jarrett IV.

 
PROB 11/1526/187
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 328(Tot)  
[Name] Golden-Grove  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 319(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 211  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 16(Tot) 12(F) 4(M)  
[Name] G. Grove and Kent Estates  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as Attorney for G. Grove and Kent Estates as Tenant by parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/225 569-570
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot) 147(F) 167(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as Attorney to the Trustee for the Estates of the late John and H N Jarrett deceased.

 
T71/225 571-584
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 216  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 46  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett the guardian of her children John and Stephen Jarrett both Infants. "The last return was made by me as attorney to the Trustee for the Estate of John and H N Jarrett deceased" "These Slaves are acquired by demise under the will of Herbert Newton Jarrett deceased and the Last return was made by me as attorney of the Trustee for the Estates of John and Herbert Newton Jarrett deceased".

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl attorney for Golden Grove and Kent Estates as Tenant by parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 320(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 209  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 314(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 299(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett the Guardian of her children John, Stephen Jarrett both Infants. Last return made by Edward Earl the then attorney. Increase of 5 enslaved people and decrease of 5 through "exchange with Doctor Willis".

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot) 13(F) 4(M)  
[Name] Kent & Golden Grove Estates  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr attorney for Kent & Golden Grove Estates as Tenant by Parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an Absentee and unrpresented. Last return made by Edward Earl the then attorney.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 184  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 313(Tot) 146(F) 167(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett the Owner. Increase of 14 enslaved people "By purchase from Miss Ann Jarrett, registered in 1823 by one as Tenant by Parol to her an Absentee and unrepresented".

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 162  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 306(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 186  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 308(Tot) 145(F) 163(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett the Owner of Golden Grove Estate.

 
T71/238 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 293(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 158  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 290(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
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] 291(Tot) 140(F) 151(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett the Owner of Golden Grove Estate.

 
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