Jamaica St James 760 (Salt Spring)

Parliamentary Papers p. 74.

T71/873: claim from John Henry Deffell, of London, as owner-in-fee.

R.A. Barrett, The Barretts of Jamaica: The Family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Athlone, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000) p. 83: a rebellion started in 1831 when W. S. Grignon, estate attorney for John Henry Deffell, ordered an enslaved person carrying a sugar cane to be flogged: the head driver, her husband, refused.

Jamaica Almanac (1828): estate registered to John Henry Deffell, with 182 enslaved persons.

Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837 (London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1838) pp. xlix-l: the authors provide an adverse critique - 'the provision grounds are fifteen miles distant from the estate'. No ownership information is given.