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Douces Ballards River

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Associated People (5)

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
1775 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Not known
Rose Hering May I

The estate was registered as the property of Mr May in 1775 and for trustees for Rose Hering May 1787-1790.

1786 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Trustee
Simon Taylor of Jamaica
1786 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Trustee
Richard Brissett
1786 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Trustee
John Grant
1797 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
William Vassall May

Notes

Plotted as a sugar estate in Clarendon in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica but not identified in other sources.

Estate Information (16)

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1775
[Name] Ballards River  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Estate belonging to Mr. May. Account filed by Walter Welch of the parish of St. Dorothy.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 284
1776
[Name] Ballards River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the Hon. Rose Herring Esq. [presumably given the evolutions that come before and after, in fact Rose Hering May]. Account filed by John MacKenzie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 76
1786
[Name] Douces Ballards River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 168-169
1787
[Name] Douces Ballards River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Grant, Simon Taylor and Richard Brissett Esqs trustees of Rose Hering May Esq; account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 68
1788
[Name] Douces Ballards River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Grant, Simon Taylor and Richard Brissett Esquires trustees of Rose Herring May Esquire. Account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 309 f.164
1789
[Name] Douce's Ballards River Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Grant, Simon Taylor and Richard Brissett Esquires trustees of Rose Hering May Esquire. Account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 338-339 f.167
1790
[Name] Ballard River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of John Grant, Simon Taylor and Richard Brissett Esquires trustees of Rose Herring May Esquire. Account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 421 [f.210]
1791
[Name] Douces Ballard River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by John Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 258
1797
[Name] Douces  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Vassall May Esq of Great Britain under the management of John Wiggan May Esq his attorney. Account filed by William Haswell as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 01/01/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 30-31
1798
[Name] Douces  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Clarendon 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1798
[Name] Douces  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Atterbery overseer. In the possession of William Vassal May Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 53
1799
[Name] Douces Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Atterbery as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 231
1801
[Name] Douces Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Hassell [=Vassall] May Esq. Account filed by John Wigan May.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 182
1803
[Name] Douces Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McDonald.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 71-72
1804
[Name] Douces Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of John McDonald (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 136
1807
[Name] Douces  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Peck as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 99-100