Spot Valley

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Associated People (10)

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
1827 [SY] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1798 [SY] - → Legatee
1798 [SY] - → Annuitant
- 1834 [LA] → Annuitant

The husband of Lucy Hill, Sir John Hill, claimed the compensation for the enslaved people on Spot Valley in the 1830s in right of wife based on her annuity of £200 p.a. This had been left to her after the death of her first husband Joseph Barrett (himself an annuitant) under the will of her father-in-law Wisdom Barrett made in 1792 and proved in 1798.

1774 [EA] - → Owner

Tentative association with this Charles Bernard.

1777 [EA] - 1798 [EY] → Owner
1798 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Shown as owner but his will indicated that he was tenant-for-life and then also mortgagee.

1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee

Associated Claims (1)

£3,401 14S 6D

Estate Information (52)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Spot /Spott Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 81  
 

Listed as belonging to Honorable Charles Bernard with 5 men bearing arms and 6 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 126 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1777
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by John Weldon Arthur as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 126
1778
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by John Weldon Arthur as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 138
1779
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by John Weldon Arthur as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 87
1780
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by Robert Scarlett as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 88
1781
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 125
1782
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 166
1783
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 25
1784
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 128
1785
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barritt Esq. Account filed by John Wigan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 123
1786
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barrett Esq; account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 135
1787
[Name] Spott Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Burrett Esq; account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 89
1788
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Barrett Esquire. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 91-92 [f.46]
1789
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barnett Esquire. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 250
1790
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barrett Esquire. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 78-79
1791
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barrett Esquire. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 232
1792
[Name] Spott Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Barret Esquire. Account filed by James Holland Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 161-162
1793
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Wisdom Barnett Esquire. Account filed by James H. Chancellor as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 428
1794
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Wiggan as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 124
1795
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Barrett Esq. Account filed by William Wiggan as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 194
1796
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Wisdom Barrett, Esq. Account filed by William Wiggan? Overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1798
[Name] Spott Valley  
[Crop] sugar, Rum  
 

Account filed by William Wiggan overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 40
1798
[Name] Spot Valley  
 

Bequeathed by Wisdom Barrett to his eldest son Samuel Wisdom Barrett in trust, subject to an annuity of £1,000 p/a to his second son Joseph Francis Sill Barrett and a payment of £8,000 to his daughter Mary Barrett.

 
PROB 11/1301/234
1799
[Name] Spot Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Wiggan overseer. The property of Samuel Wisdom Barrett Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 211
1799
[Name] Spot-Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James as a sugar estate with a cattle mill 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.
1800
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Wisdom Barrett Esq under the direction of John Griffiths Esq. Account filed by William Wiggan as overseer for the period 01/01/1800 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 204
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with S. Wisdom Barret as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1801
[Name] Spot Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Samuel W Barrett Esq. Account filed by William Wiggan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 96
1803
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Samuel Wisdom Barrett Esq. Account filed by William Wiggan as overseer for the period 01/01/1803 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 170
1807
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Account filed by William Weggan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 83
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 23  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 22  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Spot-Valley  
[Stock] 102  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 148  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot) 144(F) 131(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Phillip Anglin Scarlett as attorney to Samuel Wisdom Barrett.

 
T71/204 94-101
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Samuel M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of P.A. Scarlett as Attorney to Samuel Wisdom Barrett.

 
T71/207 266-267
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 127  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Anglin Scarlett as Attorney of Samuel Wisdom Barrett Esq.

 
T71/212 51-52
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 108  
 

Registered to Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Philip Anglin Scarlett as Attorney of Samuel Wisdom Barrett Esq.

 
T71/215 216-217
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to heirs of Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 44  
 

Registered to heirs of Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney of John Henry Duffell, Trustee of Wisdom Barrett decd; increase owing to 10 births and acquisition of 184 enslaved people from the Estate of Wisdom Barrett, given in previously by Philip Anglin Scarlett the younger & the Elder as attorneys to Samuel Wisdom Barrett in his lifetime and were on the 28th June 1826 on Spot Valley Estate; decrease in total owing to 14 deaths and 2 manumission.

 
T71/217
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 61  
 

Registered to heirs of Samuel W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to heirs of S. W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to heirs of S. W. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Stanford Grignon as Attorney of John Henry Deffell Trustee of Wisdom Barrett decd.

 
T71/222 222
1839
[Name] Spot Valley  
[Size] 1121  
 

Registered to heirs of S. M. Barrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.