Cacoon or Cocoon Castle Pen

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
22/01/1765 [SD] - → Joint owner
- 1797 [EY] → Attorney
1784 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner

It is not cleat that the entry for Joseph Brissett refers in fact to Cacoon (or Cocoon) Castle Pen (which appears to have been in the possession of the Clarke family throughout): it might refer to Cacoon [JA 7286] instead, or to a third estate not yet identifiied

1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Attorney
1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Overseer
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,806 10S 6D

Estate Information (48)

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1779
[Name] Cocoon Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Lady Ann Clarke. Account filed by Alexander Philips as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 135
1780
[Name] Cocoon Castle Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Account filed by Alexander Philips as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 207
1781
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys  
 

No ownership details given. Account filed by Alexander Philips, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 75-76
1782
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

Account filed by Alexander Philips and Charles Watt as overseers.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 173
1783
[Name] Cocoon Castle  
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys  
 

No ownership detail given. Account filed by Charles Watt, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 72-73
1784
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys  
 

No ownership detail given. Account filed by Charles Watt, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 76
1786
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Pen  
[Size] 468  
 

Joseph Brissett owned Cacoon Pen in Hanover, Jamaica, which he mortgaged to his uncle John Tharp, William Miles of Bristol, and others, 12/05/1786. At the time the estate covered 468 acres and included 147 enslaved people. Papers relating to bonds held on Cacoon estate between John Tharp and Joseph Brissett 1785-1806 are held in the Tharp Papers in Cambridge County Record Office.

 
1786
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] cattle  
 

Property of Lady Clark; account filed by Charles Watt, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 110
1786
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
[Crop] horses, mulescattle, sheep  
 

The property of Lady Ann Clarke disposed of by Francis Grant and Simon Clarke Esqs; account filed by Charles Watt as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 72-73
1787
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Account filed by Martin John Geayes planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 23-25 f.12-13
1788
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Account filed by Martin John Geayes planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 208
1789
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 306
1791
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, cattle  
 

Account filed by Martin John Geeyes [?] planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 305 [f.147]
1792
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Lady Clarke. Account filed by Martin Grayes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 84-85
1793
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] Horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Lady Clarke. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 109-110
1794
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, stags, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Lady Clarke under the care and direction of Simon Haughton Clarke and John Graham Esq.s. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 125-126
1795
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, cattle, sheep, pasturage  
 

Property of Lady Clarke under the direction of John Graham Esq her attorney. Account filed by Martin Jn Geayes as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 178
1797
[Name] Cacoon Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old iron and tin  
 

Under the direction of James Wedderburn deceased (17/07/1797) and William Fyffe Esq as attornies to Joseph Brissett Esq. Account filed by John Young as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 40
1797
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Lady Clarke under the direction of John Graham Esq her attorney. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1797.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 7
1798
[Name] Cacoon Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old brass, hire of enslaved people  
 

Under the direction of William Fyffe Esq as attorney to Joseph Brissett Esq. Account filed by John Young as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 87
1798
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Lady Clarke under the direction of John Graham Esq her attorney. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 168
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] C. C. Penn  
 

Registered in Hanover to Lady Ann Clarke with 131 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 23.
1799
[Name] Cacoon  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with two cattle mills 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.
1799
[Name] Cacoon Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, labour hire  
 

Under the direction of John Wedderburn and William Fyffe Esq.s as attorneys to Joseph Brissett Esq. Account filed by John Young as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 155
1799
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Lady Ann Clarke under the direction of John Graham Esq and James Colquhoun Grant Esq her attorneys. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the year ending 31/12/1799.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 140-142
1800
[Name] Cacoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] cattle, mules, horses, sheep  
 

Under the direction of James Colquhoun Grant Esq, attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Bart. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 209-210
1801
[Name] Cocoun Castle Penn  
[Crop] Ewes, horses, mules, working steers, fat steers, cows, heifers, calves, wedders  
 

Under the direction of James Colquhoun Grant Esquire attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet. Account filed by John Grays as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 163
1803
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn  
[Crop] horses, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

Property of Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Bart of Great Britain on the order of Handasyde Edgar Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Martin John Geayes as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 11
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon-Castle  
[Stock] 1095  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1260  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 69(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Cocoon Castle Pen  
 

In possession of Simon Knubley as attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet, owner.

 
T71/190 152-154
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 141  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 106  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Simon Knubley as attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet.

 
T71/191 98-100
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1023  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1075  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet.

 
T71/192 145-146
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1067  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1183  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Bart.

 
T71/193 176-177
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1136  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1087  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
 

In the possession of John Irving as attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Bart.

 
T71/194 95
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 1083  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 950  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Stock] 971  
 

Registered to Sir S. H. Clarke, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen  
 

In the possession of William Gordon as attorney to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke Baronet.

 
T71/198 166
1839
[Name] Cacoon Castle  
[Size] 3327  
 

Registered to Sir Simon H. Clarke.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.