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Mountain Valley

Jamaica | Hanover

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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
1796 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Previous owner
Richard Brissett
1796 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
George Brissett

Notes

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

Estate Information (10)

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1796
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Richard Barforth? Esq dec. Account given by George Barforth? Esq, acting trustee and executor. Account filed by Thomas Daly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Bressett? Esq, dec. Account given by George Bressett, Esq, acting executor and trustee. Account filed by Thomas Daly, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 208
1798
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased on the order of George Brissett Esq acting executor and trustee. Account filed by Thomas Daly as overseer for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 123
1799
[Name] Mountain Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover 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.
1799
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  
 

In the possession of George Brissett Esq trustee. Account filed by Thomas Daly as overseer for the period 31/12/1798 to 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 153-154
1800
[Name] Mountain Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the Heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased. Account filed by John Bell as overseer. Accounts filed for 1800 (?).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 113
1803
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased. Account filed by John Bell as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 01/02/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 180
1803
[Name] Mountains Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle old copper  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett Esq deceased. Account filed by John Bell as overseer for the period 01/02/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 74
1804
[Name] Mountain Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Richard Brissett, Esq, deceased. Account filed in the name of John Bell, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 184
1807
[Name] Mountain Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account presented by John Bell as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 153