Matthew Wallen

???? - 1797


Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, variously described as a Captain in the British Navy or an 'Irish Admiral', previous owner of Chiswick and known for his garden at Cold Spring on the St Andrew/Portland border.

  1. DIED: At Cold Spring, in Port Royal Mountains, Matthew Wallen, Esq., Member of Assembly for Port Royal.

  2. Cold Spring is assumed to be the same estate as Mount Pleasant, owned by Matthew Wallen and consisting of 85 acres in St Andrew in 1753.


Sources

http://www.heritagegardensjamaica.com/history.htm [accessed 17/08/2017]; B. W. Higman, Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society p. 100.

  1. CARIBBEANA, Volume IV MARRIAGES AND DEATHS FROM "THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE OR MONTHLY MISCELLANY" Published in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1796-1799: JANUARY, 1797.

  2. CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm.


Further Information

Children
Mary Player

Associated Estates (3)

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
1780 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner
- 1797 [EY] → Other

Matthew Wallen established the gardens at Cold Spring, on the St Andrew/Portland border, reportedly in 1746, building a new house in 1788, and dying there in January 1797.

Other

Matthew Wallen fl 1780s was of Wallenford and Cold Spring,


Relationships (2)

Father → Daughter
Father-in-law → Son-in-law