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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:
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1813 [SY] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
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1723 [EA] - 1741 [LA] → Joint owner
By the account of Samuel Long's son Edward Long, "I am not perfectly certain by what means [Samuel Long] became possessed only of one half of that Estate, and my uncle Charles [Long, 1705-1778] the other; but in that it may have hapned in virtue of some settlement made at the time of [Samuel's father Charles's] intermarriage with Lady Modyford, when he might probably have granted that other moiety to the first son or male issue of that marriage." |
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1723 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Joint owner
It is not clear when and how Charles Long's joint-ownership dropped away. |
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1770 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Overseer
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1770 [EA] - 1813 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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1834 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,205 6S 2D
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In 1769 the estate had an unusual shape owing the acquisition of the 400 acres Rules Plantation which was purchased by Edward Long. This extended Lucky Valley to the banks of the Juan de Bolas River to the north. A further 46 acres was purchased from a George Summons. To this Long also added a further 220 and 100 acres however none of this newly acquired property was in cane in 1769, instead it provided provision grounds, woodland and pasture. Lucky Valley was surveyed in 1769 at the request of Edward Long by James Blair and again in 1773 by Kenneth Morison at the request of Florence Donovan (Long's overseer). The old works of Lucky Valley were built in 1708 and used both cattle and water mills. The water mill was not very located and in the dry season there was an inadequate water supply for it. The new works were powered by a water mill, these works were also closer to the cane fields creating greater efficiency and leading to an expansion in the area under cane from 385 acres in 1769 to 505 in 1773. This expansion was enabled by spreading into what had been the 'Negro Grounds.' The cane fields were restricted by the valleys of the Pindar's River and Back River. The works were about 600 feet above sea level. Long's History estimated the capital value and profit of a sugar estate producing 300 hogsheads of sugar and 150 puncheons of rum - the figures were strikingly similar to the output of Lucky Valley in 1772, in the region of £4000 Jamaican currency. Long estimated such an estate would be worth £40,000 therefore the interest would yield 10% per annum, the figure he himself drew from Lucky Valley in the 1770s. The estate had become less productive by the time Edward Long's son inherited the property. After Long's death his son Edward Beeston Long had the estate surveyed again in1816 by Benjamin Haynes. The profits were topped up by carrying the produce of other nearby estates to Long's Wharf. Livestock was also sold. Th estate itself had expanded by 1,915 acres and the enslaved population had remained stable. Land had beeb purchased from Gordon and Donaldson's Upper Unity Plantation and Upper Unity House was rented out for £12 per annum. Lucky Valley was also captured by the landscape artist W. Berryman although only a single sketch survives. This entry is wholly indebted to B. W. Higman. |
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B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), pp.84-89. |
Estate Information (52) |
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1741
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee and sundry smiths work Estate of Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Produce sold by Cooper Demetres Esq. attorney to the said Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Account filed by James Wilsonn as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 167-168
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1742
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, livestock and sundry smiths work Estate of Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Account of the quantity of stock that was sold by Cooper Demetrius Esq. attorney to the said Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Account filed by James Wilson as overseer to the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 50
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1743
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock and sundry smiths and bricklayers work Estate of Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Account of the quantity of stock that was sold by Cooper Demetrius Esq. attorney to the said Samuel and Charles Long Esqs. Account filed by James Wilson as overseer to the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 90
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1770
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Florence Donovan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 165
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1771
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Thomas Goldwin as overseer at Longville.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 173
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1772
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Florence Donovan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 69
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1773
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Florence Donovan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 79
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1774
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Daniel Kerr.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 260
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1775
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Daniel Kerr.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 287
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1776
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Daniel Kerr.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 59
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1779
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by Daniel Kerr.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 142
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1782
[Name] Luckey Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Edward Long Esquire. Account filed by Daniel Kerr.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 148
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1783
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Account filed by George Mills.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 57
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1785
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Account filed by George Mills.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 79
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1786
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by George Mills. Lucky Valley/Longville Park filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 186
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1787
[Name] Luckey Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by George Mills.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 137
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1787
[Name] Luck Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Alexander Bryce.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 49 f.25
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1788
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edward Long Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Bryce.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 370
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1791
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of Edward Long Esquire. Account filed by Malcolm MacNeill as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 136
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1792
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 228
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1793
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 25
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1794
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 146
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1795
[Name] Lucky Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, old cows Account filed by Joseph Gordon, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 39
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1796
[Name] Lucky Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 36-37
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1798
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 272
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1798
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Clarendon 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 233-234
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1800
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 158
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1801
[Name] Lucky Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 158
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1803
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Joseph Gordon as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 126-127
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1807
[Name] Lucky Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, wainage and hire of enslaved people Belonging to Edward Long Esq. Account filed by James Miller as attorney and overseer of the estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 113
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 92 Registered to Edward Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Clarend.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 37 Registered to Edward Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1813
Edward Long died and Lucky Valley was inherited by Edward Beeston Long.
B. W. Higman, Jamaica surveyed: plantation maps and plans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Kingston, Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1988), p. 87
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)
[Name] Lucky-Valley [Stock] 183 Registered to Edward Beeston Long, attorney.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 176 Registered to Edward Beeston Long, attorney.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot) 152(F) 136(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Edward Beeston Long the owner.
T71/57 582-589
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 52 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 60 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Edward Beeston Long.
T71/58 226-227
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 284(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 175 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 187 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Edward Beeston Long.
T71/59 334
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 193 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al08.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 78 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Henry Lawes Long. Previously registered by James Miller as attorney to E.B. Long.
T71/60 277
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 79 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 63 Registered to Edward Beeston Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29clarvere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley Estate In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Henry L. Long Esquire.
T71/62 260
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)
[Name] Lucky Valley [Stock] 81 Registered to Edward B. Long.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831clar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot) 125(F) 113(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Miller as attorney to Henry Lawes Long Esquire.
T71/64 243
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1774 - 1832
Head driver on Great Valley estate in Hanover, Jamaica. Executed by hanging following Sam Sharpe's War.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Lucky Valley [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/3041 [accessed 19th April 2024].
