Eden Estate

Estate Details


Associated People (10)

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
1752 [SY] - 1768 [EY] → Joint owner

David Hancock noted that Alexander Grant of Achoynanie and his cousin Sir Alexander Grant were joint owners of Eden plantation until 1768 when the lands were divided by casting lots.

1752 [SY] - 1768 [EY] → Joint owner

David Hancock noted that Sir Alexander Grant and his cousin Alexander Grant of Achoynanie were joint owners of Eden plantation until 1768 when the land was divided up by casting lots.

1767 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
1780 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Previous owner
1810 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Receiver
1837 [EA] - → Owner
1839 [EA] - → Not known

Associated Claims (1)

£2,932 5S 3D

Estate Information (53)

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1767
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by James Robertson of Kingston as merchant and one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 94
1768
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by James Robertson of Kingston as merchant and one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 52
1769
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by Stephen Dunbar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 51
1770
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by Stephen Dunbar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 41
1771
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. produce received and disposed of by his attorneys. Account filed by James Robertson of the parish of Kingston a merchant and one of the attorneys of Alexander Grant Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 220
1772
[Size] 1120  
 

David Hancock extracted the data based on the 1772 probate inventory of Sir Alexander Grant held in the Jamaica Archives, Spanishtown. The property was valued at £15,723 after having been converted from Jamaica island currency to English pounds sterling.

 
David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.
1772
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. Account filed by Stephen Dunbar as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 51
1776
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Alexander Grant Esquire, as disposed of by his attorney. Account filed by Thomas Leslie, manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 131
1777
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Alexander Grant Esquire, as disposed of by his attorneys. Account filed by Thomas Leslie, manager.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 132
1780
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Alexander Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Macpherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 189
1781
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

the property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by John MacPherson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 113
1782
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by John McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 154-155 f.78
1783
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Macpherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 158
1784
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Macpherson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 180
1786
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McPherson, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 115
1786
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alex.r Grant Esq deceased; account filed by John McPherson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 156-157
1787
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, pimento  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esq deceased; account filed by John Macpherson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 66-67
1788
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Patrick Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 376-377 f.208
1789
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Patrick Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 331-332 f.163
1790
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some pimento  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Buchannan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 346-347
1791
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grain [or Grant ?] Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Buchannan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 318
1792
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Buchannan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 178-179 [f.90]
1793
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, logwood and cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Alexander Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Buchannan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 393-394
1795
[Name] Eden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of heirs of Alexander Grant Esq deceased of Arindilly. Account filed by Robert Gordon as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 139
1796
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood  
 

Belonging to Alexander Campbell dec. Account given by John Campbell Esq. Account filed by Colin McKenzie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, pimento  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by Colin MacKenzie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 200
1798
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento, logwood  
 

Property of heirs of Alexander Grant Esq of Arindilly deceased. Account filed by Colin Mackenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 219
1799
[Name] Eden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, pimento, cattle, sheep  
 

Account filed by Colin Mackenzie for the period 01/01/1799 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 7
1800
[Name] Eden Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, pimento  
 

Account filed by Colin Mackenzie as overseer for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 72-73
1803
[Name] Eden Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, pimento,logwood  
 

Belonging to D McDowell Grant, Esq. Account filed by Colin MacKenzie, overseer for said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 18
1807
[Name] Eden  
[Crop] sugar, rum, main roller, cow, logwood and a copper teach  
 

Account filed by Colin Mackenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 92
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to D. McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 113  
 

Registered to D. McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to David McDowal Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 87(F) 103(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

David McDowall Grant, owner.

 
T 71/33 619-625
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to David McDowal Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 21  
 

Registered to David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot) 107(F) 133(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William McDowall, attorney to David McDowall Grant, owner [increase by purchase].

 
T 71/34 171v-173
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 105  
 

Registered to David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 131  
 

Registered to David Macdowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot) 108(F) 126(M)  
[Name] Eden Estate  
 

Henry Cox, attorney to David McDowall Grant, owner.

 
T 71/35 108-109
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 150  
 

Registered to David Macdowall Grant. Number of stock unclear on page.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 137  
 

Registered to David Macdowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot) 99(F) 113(M)  
[Name] Eden Estate  
 

Henry Cox, attorney for David McDowall Grant, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 381-383
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 130  
 

Registered to David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to the Hon. David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 96(F) 104(M)  
[Name] Eden Estate  
 

John Hamilton, overseer for David McDowall Grant, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/39 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 19  
 

Registered to the Hon. David McD. Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to the Hon. David McD. Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 81(F) 82(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

The Honble David McDowall Grant, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/41 201
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to David McDowall Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Eden  
[Size] 1630  
 

Registered to John Gladstone.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.