Palmetto Grove

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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
1810 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Hibberts Fuhr and Purrier were shown as the mortgagees-in-possession, although Edward Fuhr had died several years previously.

1817 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1817 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,863 14S 6D

Estate Information (29)

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1797
[Name] Palmetta Grave  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 16
1798
[Name] Palmetto Grove  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Mary 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.
1799
[Name] Palmetto Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Anderson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 184
1800
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 177
1801
[Name] Palmetto Grove  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Robert Anderson (?) as overseer. Accounts year not specified but assumed to be 1800-1801 the same as surrounding entries.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 205-206
1803
[Name] Palmetto Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by John Thomson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 118
1807
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, land rental and hire of enslaved people  
 

Account presented by Thomas Tucker as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 192-193
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Stock] 204  
 

Registered to Alexander Wright deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Mary.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Stock] 197  
 

Registered to Alexander Wright deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812mar.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto-Grove  
[Stock] 152  
 

Registered to heirs of Alexander Wright.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot) 128(F) 115(M)  
[Name] Palmoto Grove Estate [Palmetto Grove?]  
 

James Simpson, attorney to Hibberts, Fuhr and Purrier, mortgagees in possession of Palmoto Grove Estate, late the property of Alexander Wright, deceased.

 
T 71/33 815-822
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Stock] 126  
 

Registered to Alexander Wright.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al05.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Grove  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Taylor and Simpsons.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot) 121(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
 

James Deans, owner [by purchase; registered in 1817 by James Simpson, attorney to Hibberts, Fuhr and Purrier, mortgagees in possession of Palmeto Grove Estate, late the property of Alexander Wright, deceased].

 
T 71/34 307-311v
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 87  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot) 122(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
 

James Deans, owner.

 
T 71/35 130-131
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 239(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 160  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 128  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot) 113(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
 

James Deans, owner [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 77-79
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 144  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 165  
 

Registered to estate of James Deans.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot) 112(F) 116(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Deans, trustee to the estate of James Deans, deceased [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove Estate  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to John Deans, trustee.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Stock] 45  
 

Registered to John Deans, trustee.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot) 107(F) 108(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

John Deans, trustee of James Deans, deceased [decrease by deaths and manumissions].

 
T 71/41 127
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Palmeto Grove  
[Stock] 33  
 

Registered to John Deans, trustee.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Palmetto Grove  
[Size] 1040  
 

Registered to J. V. Purrier.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Mary.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.