Spring Valley

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Associated People (8)

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
1775 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Previous owner
1786 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Previous owner
1810 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Not known

Registered to D.P. Molony in 1810. Molony has been a partner with John Willis.

1817 [EA] - → Receiver
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
1823 [EA] - → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£2,170 0S 4D

Estate Information (38)

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1775
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Bucknor Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Paisley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 115
1776
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of John Bucknor Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Paisley.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 115
1782
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Thomas Brooks planter overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 177 f.89
1786
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 13 Feb to 31 Dec 1786. Account filed by John Jaques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing deceased as mortgagees in possession of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 166-167
1787
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 185
1788
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques acting executor of Malcolm Laing deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 356
1789
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher acting executor of Malcolm Long deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 364
1790
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Ralph Fisher one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 397 [f.198]
1791
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jaques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 209 [f.99]
1792
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 191
1793
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques one of the acting executors of Malcolm Laing Esquire deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 431-432
1794
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Jacques, surviving acting executor of Malcolm Laing Esq deceased for the period 31/12/1793 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 202
1795
[Name] Spring Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account given by either John Jaques or Geo Murray as surviving executors to the estate of Malcolm Laing, Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 36
1796
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Leslie Dunlop, status not given.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 53
1798
[Name] Spring-Valley  
[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.
1800
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Under the care and direction of Samuel H Chancellor or which he is in possession of. Account filed by Samuel H Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 73
1801
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner details not recorded. Account filed by James H Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 161-162
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to D. P. Molony.

 
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] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 92  
 

Registered to Shand and Smart (trustees).

 
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] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 98  
 

Registered to Honorable John Shand and Robert Smart, trustees.

 
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] 145(Tot) 78(F) 67(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Shand, receiver.

 
T 71/33 643-647
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 41  
 

Registered to Thomas Addison.

 
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] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Thomas Addison, receiver.

 
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.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot) 74(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
 

Thomas Addison, receiver.

 
T 71/34 5-5v
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 80  
 

Registered to Thomas Addison, receiver.

 
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] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 89  
 

Registered to William Shand, receiver.

 
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.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 75(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
 

Joseph Tyrrell, receiver.

 
T 71/35 466-468
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to Joseph Tyrrell.

 
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] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to Joseph Tyrrell, receiver.

 
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.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot) 73(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
 

Browne Willis and James Cockburn, receivers [decrease by deaths].

 
T 71/36 358-359
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 48  
 

Registered to Cockburn and Willis.

 
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] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to Cockburn and Willis.

 
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] 130(Tot) 70(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
 

James Cockburn, receiver.

 
T 71/37 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 32  
 

Registered to James Cockburn.

 
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] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 27  
 

Registered to James Cockburn.

 
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] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to James Cockburn.

 
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.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 66(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Spring Valley Estate  
 

James Cockburn, receiver.

 
T 71/41 97
1839
[Name] Spring Valley  
[Size] 1244  
 

Registered to James Cockburn.

 
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.