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Parnassus

Jamaica | Trelawny

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Associated People (2)

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
1793 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Previous owner
John Stogdon
1794 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Executor
John Whittaker

Notes

Recorded on the 1804 map as a sugar estate with a cattle mill but not found in the slave registers. Appears from the 1890 map to have been absorbed into Lond Pond or possible Hyde sugar estates in Trelawny.

Estate Information (3)

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1793
[Name] Parnassus Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Under the care and direction of John Whittaker Esq acting executor and trustee of John Stogdon Esq deceased. Account filed by John Reid Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 47
1794
[Name] Parnassus Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Whittaker Esq as acting executor of John Hodgson [= Stogdon] Esq deceased. Account filed by John Reid.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 18
1799
[Name] Parnassus  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.