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Somerset Vale

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Associated People (6)

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
1789 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Executor
Henry Stanley
1789 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Previous owner
John Penny
1797 [EA] - → Attorney
Henry Stanley
1807 [EA] - → Overseer
John Satchell
1810 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Owner
Richard Kinkead
1810 [EA] - → Joint owner
George Kinkead

Estate Information (11)

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1789
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1790
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1791
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1792
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1793
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1794
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1795
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Belonging to John Penny Esq, dec. Account given by Henry Stanley, surviving executor. Somerset Vale Estate and Windsor Forest Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Somerset Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee  
 

Account filed by Henry Stanley as attorney for the estate for the period 20/05/1797 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 44
1798
[Name] Somerset-Vale  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Port Royal as a sugar estate with a watermill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1807
[Name] Somerset Vale  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Satchell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 108
1839
[Name] Windsor Forest, Somerset Vale and New Rambo  
[Size] 1905  
 

Registered to George Atkinson. Note Somerset Vale is registered with Windsor Forest and New Ramble in St David when it appeared as a sugar estate in Port Royal before 1816.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40David.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.