Jamaica St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey 65 (Grange Hill)

Parliamentary Papers p. 47.

T71/867: awarded to Sir Henry Fitzherbert, St Thomas-in-the-East, owner-in-fee.

Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837 (London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1838) p. 297: 'a fine estate belonging to Sir Henry Fitzherbert, which has recently been truned into an indigo plantation.' Experiment in restoring cultivation of indigo: 'the circumstance of this interesting experiment being confided to an Overseer, and one who has made up his mind beforehand that it will not succeed, forebodes an unfavourable result.'