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Cave River Plantation

Jamaica | St Ann

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Associated People (7)

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
1792 [EA] - → Owner
John Woofe
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
John Chrystie
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
Duncan Matheson or Mathison
1817 [EA] - → Lessee (Enslaved)
Thomas Reid
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Mrs Sarah Sharp (née Woofe)
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Fairweather
1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
Mrs Sarah Sharp (née Woofe)

Associated Claims (2)

Jamaica St Ann 606 (Cave River Plantation)
£770 10S 11D
Jamaica St Ann 607 (Cave River Plantation)
£1,493 8S 2D

Notes

Note some of the estate information for Cave River appears in the Clarendon parish records. See JA6362.

Estate Information (7)

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1792
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Dr Wooff's  
[Stock] 30  
 

Assumed to be the location of the 30 enslaved people owned by Dr John Woofe in St Ann in 1792 and the "Dr Wooff's" plotted on the St Ann-Clarendon border in Robertson's map of 1804.

 
'A List of slaves and stock in the parish of St Ann taken the 28th March 1792 pursuant to order of the Honourable House of Assembly... transcribed from papers presented to the British Museum by Charles E. Long ref. Add. 12435' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mstann1792.htm.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot) 10(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Chrystie and Duncan Matheson as attorneys to Mrs. Sarah Sharp at Mulgrove Castle, Whitby, Great Britain; at present employed by Thomas Reid Esq., on his new plantation, Cascade.

 
T 71/43 1040-1041
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot) 10(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Chrystie and Duncan Matheson as attorneys of Mrs. Sarah Sharpe of Mulgrove Castle, Whitby, Great Britain.

 
T 71/44 601-602
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 12(F) 20(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Mrs Sarah Sharp.

 
T71/59 523
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 15(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney of Mrs Sarah Sharp their owner.

 
T71/60 448
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 15(F) 19(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather Esquire as attorney of Mrs Sarah Sharp.

 
T71/61 385
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot) 17(F) 18(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Robert Fairweather as attorney to the heirs of Mrs Sarah Sharp deceased.

 
T71/64 398