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Great River

Jamaica | St James

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Associated People (4)

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 [EA] - → Joint owner
Muschett
1774 [EA] - → Joint owner
Harvey

Almost certainly William Harvie.

1783 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Previous owner
William Harvie
1785 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Sir Walter Farquhar

Shown as mortgagee-in-possession in 1788, otherwise simply shown against his name.

Notes

Not identified in slave registers or almanacs.

Estate Information (13)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Great River  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 115  
 

Listed as belonging to Harvey & Muschett with 4 men bearing arms and 4 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 80 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1783
[Name] Great River  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of William Harvie Esq. deceased. Account filed by Andrew Murray as overseer on the order of James Lewis one of the trustees of William Harvie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 59-60
1785
[Name] Great River Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Walter Farquar of London, under the direction of James Kerr attorney; account filed by Andrew Murray, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 74
1786
[Name] Great River  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of William Harvey deceased; in the possession of the attorneys of Walter Farquar Esq of London; account filed by Andrew Murray, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 3
1787
[Name] Great River Plantation  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of William Harvie Esq deceased; account filed by William Brown, attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 130
1787
[Name] Great River Pen  
[Crop] Pasturage  
 

Account filed by Andrew Wingate pen keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 57 f.29
1788
[Name] Great River Estate  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people, old copper, pasturage  
 

Account filed by John Taylor as attorney to Walter Farquhar mortgagee in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 285 f.152
1789
[Name] Great River Penn  
[Crop] [Crop not stated]  
 

Crop kept by Andrew Wingate as penn keeper. Account filed by James Holmes. Accounts filed for 31/12/1788 to 10/05/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 418
1789
[Name] Great River Penn  
[Crop] [Crop not stated]  
 

Account filed by Duncan Wright. Accounts filed for 23/05/1789 to 31/12 1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 419 f.207
1790
[Name] Great River Penn  
[Crop] Pasturage, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of Walter Farquhar Esquire. Account filed by Duncan Wright as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 351 [f.175]
1791
[Name] Great River Penn  
[Crop] Pasturage, hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Duncan Wright as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 348
1792
[Name] Great River Pen  
[Crop] Pasturage and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account filed by Duncan Wright as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/08/1792 to 01/01/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 175 [f.88]
1799
[Name] Great-River  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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.