Unity Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
1774 [SY] - 1824 [EY] → Owner
1756 [SY] - 1774 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
- 1755 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
1834 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor

Associated Claims (1)

£3,026 1S 3D

Notes

A pen in St Ann, Jamaica, possibly at some point a sugar estate as well. Owned by John Blagrove the elder and inherited by his grandson John Blagrove the younger in 1756. The estate passed to Blagrove the youner's son John William Blagrove in 1824.

Estate accounts for Unity Pen 1756-1775 are held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, 'Papers of John Blagrove (1753-1824), West Indian plantation owner, regarding estates in Jamaica', held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1502-gm/443 [accessed 01/07/2016].

See also Unity Valley Pen (JA1597).


Estate Information (21)

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1756
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, delivered by order of Messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLachlan, attornies. Account filed by John Sutherland, book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 44
1757
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLaughlan as attorneys to said estate. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, overseer. Cardiff Hall and Unity Estate filed together. No differentiation of crops.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 81
1758
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of messieurs Kerr, Malcolm, McLaughlan as attorneys to said estate. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, overseer. Cardiff Hall and Unity Estate filed together. No differentiation of crops.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 82
1759
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of Kerr, Malcolm & McLachlan, attorneys. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, overseer. Cardiff Hall and Unity Estate filed together. No differentiation of crops.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 155
1760
[Name] Unity Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor, and delivered by order of Kerr, Malcolm & McLachlan, attorneys. Account filed by Duncan Campbell, overseer. Cardiff Hall and Unity Estate filed together. No differentiation of crops.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 154
1766
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Archibald Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 40
1767
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove a minor. Account filed by Alexander Rose as overseer on the direction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 59
1769
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Account filed by George Campbell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 199
1771
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Angus Campbell on the instruction of John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 177
1773
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Angus Campbell as manager and delivered by order of Archibald Campbell Esq. as attorney to John Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 76
1774
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and pimento  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove, a minor. Account filed by Angus Campbell as manager and delivered on the instruction of Archibald Campbell Esq. as guardian for Blagrove.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 260
1792
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Unity  
[Stock] 220  
 

Owned by John Blagrove.

 
'A list of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly', Edward Long Papers, Add. 12435, transcribed at htt
1793
[Name] Unity  
[Crop] Fustick, pimento, some cattle and horses  
 

Belonging to John Blagrove Esq on the order of Messrs Campbell and Anderson his attornies. Account filed by George Mackay as overseer for the year to 31/12/1793. Cardiff Hall and Unity plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 99
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 905(Tot)  
[Name] Bellair and Cardiffe Hall etc  
[Stock] 757  
 

Registered to John Blackgrove. Assumed to be Bell Air Pen, Cardiff Hall Pen, Unity Pen and Orange Valley Estate.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Ann.htm. The 1811 Almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 79(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Unity Pen  
 

In the possession of George Mackay as attorney for John Blagrove owner of Unity Pen.

 
T 71/43 57-60
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 77(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Unity Pen  
 

In the possession of George Mackay as attorney to John Blagrove, owner of Unity Pen [11 births, 12 deaths].

 
T 71/44 63-64
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Penn  
 

In the possession of George McKay as attorney to John Blagrove, owner of Unity Penn.

 
T 71/45 96-97
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Penn  
 

In the possession of William Miller and Robert H Scott as attorneys to the executors and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased.

 
T 71/46 50-52
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Penn  
 

In the possession of William Miller as attorney to the executor and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased on Unity Penn.

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Unity Pen  
 

In the possession of The Honble. William Miller as attorney to the executors and trustees of John Blagrove, deceased, on Unity Pen.

 
T 71/49 78
1856
[Name] Unity  
 

Bequeathed by John Blagrove the elder to his grandson John Blagrove the younger.

 
'Papers of John Blagrove (1753-1824), West Indian plantation owner, regarding estates in Jamaica', held at the Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1502-gm/443 [accessed