Coffee Grove

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
1802 [EA] - → Joint owner
1804 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Owner

Shown as 'Belonging to' Wastel Brisco.

1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Previous owner
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1834 [EA] - → Judgement creditor
1834 [EA] - → Judgement creditor
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Judgement creditor

Associated Claims (2)

£456 16S 0D
£611 2S 9D

Estate Information (26)

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1793
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Crop] Coffee, one cow  
 

Account filed by William McGill.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 7-8
1794
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Crop] coffee  
 

Account filed by Charles Loughman for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 107
1799
[Name] Coffee Grove Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee 'sold 17 1 cow and 6 slaves"  
 

Account filed by David Falconer accountant to the attorney, Property of Jane Blinhall.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 3-4
1800
[Name] Coffee Grove Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Account filed by David Falconer, Accountant to Mrs Jane Blenshall (?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 131
1803
[Name] Coffee Grove Plantation  
[Crop] Coffee, bushels of corn, pasturage  
 

Owners name blank. Account filed in the name of Melville Swinton (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 31
1804
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Crop] Coffee and pasturage  
 

Belonging to Wastel? Brisco, Esq. Account filed by Melville Swinton, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 162
1807
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Belonging to Wastel Briscoe Esq. Account filed by William Powes.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 87-88
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to H. Samuel Jackson.

 
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.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 73  
 

Registered to Jane Blinshill deceased.

 
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.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 84  
 

Registered to Jane Blinshall.

 
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.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Samuel Jackson.

 
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.
1813
[Name] Coffee Grove  
 

Documents in the University of Miami Special collections show a re-arrangement of ownership of the estate in 1810 and on 1st December 1813, Musgrave Brisco and Wastel Brisco jr conveyed the Coffee Grove estate in Clarendon to William Mitchel [sic]. This would appear to be Musgrave and Wastel Brisco selling the estate that their mother's aunt Jane Blinshall had bequeathed to their mother and her children as tenants-in-common in her will made in 1798 and proved in 1802. Wastel Brisco jr. would have just reached his majority in 1813.

Folder 24: June 1810 Item #4524 A: Jamaica - Conveyance and Lease of Coffee Grove Plantation, Clarendon Parish., June 1st, 1810.

4524 A. Transcription Folder 3 of 5 in Drawer 7. Conveyance of an unidentified share in Coffee Grove Plantation, Clarendon, Jamaica, for the purpose of barring the entail thereof. From Sarah Brisco to Wastell Brisco. 1 membrane of vellum with 1 seal. 1 June 1810.

Item #4524 B: Jamaica - Conveyance and Lease of Coffee Grove Plantation, Clarendon Parish., June 6, 1810.

4524 B. Transcription Folder 3 of 5 in Drawer 7. Lease for a year (Dated 5 June 1810) and Conveyance of an unidentified third part of Coffee Grove Plantation, Clarendon, Jamaica, previous to the marriage of William Camac. Miss Brisco upon trust to sell. From Sarah Brisco to Wastell Brisco, Baron and others. 4 membranes joined at foot, with seven seals. 6 June 1810.

Folder 25: December 1813. Item #4524 C: Jamaica - Conveyance of Coffee Grove Plantation. Clarendon, Jamaica, December 1, 1813.

4524 C. Transcription in Drawer 7, Folder 1. Conveyance of Coffee Grove Plantation, slaves, etc. From Musgrave Brisco and Wastel Brisco, Jr. to William Mitchel. 3 membranes of vellum. 2 Seals. 1 December 1813.

Folder 37: November 1810.

 
http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/?p=collections/findingaid&id=855&q=&rootcontentid=7258
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot) 10(F) 13(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth Sarah Jackson as owner.

 
T71/57 732
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot) 11(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth Sarah Jackson as owner.

 
T71/58 213-214
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot) 12(F) 12(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Sarah Jackson as owner.

 
T71/59 288
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 5  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth Sarah Jackson as owner.

 
T71/60 262
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 3  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
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.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
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.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
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.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 8(F) 13(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Elizabeth S. Jackson as owner.

 
T71/62 222
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
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.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee-Grove  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Coffee-Grove  
 

Registered to Elizabeth Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Claren.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot) 9(F) 13(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Sarah Jackson as owner.

 
T71/64 217
1839
[Name] Coffee Grove  
[Size] 200  
 

Registered to Elizabeth S. Jackson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Clarend.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.