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- 1740 [LA] → Previous owner
Gauci used Peter Beckford's estate inventories. |
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This is possibly the same estate as Mammee Gully. |
Estate Information (6) |
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1740
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)
The inventory of Peter Beckford's estate gave the value of the stock as £1,835 Jamaican pounds. The value of the crop was £2.504 Jamaican pounds.
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.44
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1740
[Name] Malmsey Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by William Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 76
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1740
[Name] Malmsey Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the late Peter Beckford Esq. Senior and his copartners. Account filed by Richard Beckford Esq. attorney to Mrs. Bathshua Beckford and Mr. Julmes and Francis Beckford. The estates of Retreat, Kays, Malmsey Valley, Crofts, Rock River, Lime Hall, Danks, Petersfield, Shrewsbury, Roaring River, Hatfield, Smithfield, Barbadoes Valley, Lewis's Crawle, Beckford & Forbes Plantation, Seven Mile Walk, Dirty Pitt Pen, Dry sugar Work Pen, Two Mile Wood Pen, Bodles Pen, Withy Wood Pen and Esher were filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives, IB/11/4/1 79
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1754
[Crop] sugar
The number of hogsheads of sugar produced was 60.
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148
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1754
[Name] Malmsey Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum The several Estates of William Beckford, under the direction of Richard Lewing & John Mclead. Account filed by Richard Lewing, one of the attorneys. Retreat, Rock River, Malmsey Valley, Danks, Karys's Cralie, Moores, Harbour Head, Stanton, Esher, Guamaboa, Seven Mile Walk, Stanton Estates. Crops are for all the estates combined.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 3
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1779
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot)
Perry Gauci, William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale University Press, 2013), p.148
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Malmsey Valley [ Jamaica | Clarendon ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/12835 [accessed 30th January 2025].
