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Retreat

Jamaica | St Ann

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1786 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Sir Walter Farquhar

Notes

Possibly the same as Retreat Pen JA 2558

Estate Information (9)

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1783
[Name] Retreat  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Account filed by John McGhie.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 32
1786
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] enslaved hire  
 

Property of the heirs of William Harris [Harvie] Esq deceased; account filed by John McGhie, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 195-197
1786
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, pasturage  
 

On the orders of William Brown Esq attorney to Walter Farquhar Esq mortgagee in possession of the Penn; account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 141-142
1787
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] Hire of enslaved people, pasturage  
 

The property of the heirs of William Harvie Esq deceased on the orders of John Taylor one of the attornies of Walter Farquhar Esq of London the mortgagee in possession of the Penn; account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 82-83
1788
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] hire of enslaved people, pasturage  
 

The property of the heirs of William Harvie Esquire deceased on the orders of John Taylor one of the attornies of Walter Farquhar Esquire of London the mortgagee in possession of the estate. Account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 356-358
1789
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] pasturage, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of the heirs of William Harvie Esquire deceased on the orders of John Taylor Esquire one of the attornies of Walter Farquhar Esquire of London the mortgagee in possession of the Penn. Account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 244-246
1790
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] Pasturage  
 

The property of the heirs of William Harvey Esquire deceased on the orders of John Taylor Esquire one of the attornies of Walter Farquhar Esquire of London the mortgagee in possession. Account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 351-354
1792
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Stock] 21  
 

Owned by Walter Farquhar. Assumed to be Retreat Pen.

 
'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.
1792
[Name] Retreat Penn  
[Crop] Pasturage  
 

The property of Walter Farquhar Esquire of London. Account filed by George McGhie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 97-99