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Olive Park

Jamaica | Vere

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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
1809 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Owner
John Mclean
1815 [EA] - → Previous owner
John Mclean

Estate Information (9)

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1783
[Name] Olive Park  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by James Morgan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 94
1784
[Name] Olive Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

John McLean one of the trustees & Factors of the estate. Account filed by John McLean.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 162
1786
[Name] Olive Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John McLean, trustee to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 112
1796
[Name] Olive Park Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John MacDonald Esq, deceased. Account given by John McLean Esq, mortgagee. Account filed by Pierce Cooke, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 70
1798
[Name] Olive Park  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Vere 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
1807
[Name] Olive Park  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Walker as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 19
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Olive Park  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to John McLean.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Vere.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Olive Park  
[Stock] 75  
 

Registered to John McLean.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cla.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Olive Park  
[Stock] 112  
 

Registered to estate of John McLean.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15vere.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.