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Mowden Hall

Jamaica | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1720 [SY] - 1721 [EY] → Owner
John Halstead or Halsted
1670 [EA] - 1720 [LA] → Owner
Whitgift Aylmer
1790 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Owner
Charles Browne

Notes

Later merged with Swansea estate.

Estate Information (9)

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1670
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Size] 478  
 

Owned by Whitgift Aylmer in 1670, 478 acres on the northern border of Worthy Park, "... later joined to the rock-fringed and less plantable holdings of five adjacent patentees to form Swansea Estate."

 
Michael Craton and James Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation. The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 (W.H. Allen, London and New York, 1970) p. 36
1720
[Name] Mowden Hall  
 

Apparently passed to John Halstead on the death of Whitgift Aylmer, presumably by purchase. In his will, Aylmer bequeathed his moity to his daughter Catherine, stating that John Halstead owned a moity already in partnership and that if Aylmer's half was sold then Halstead should have first chance to purchase it.

 
Michael Craton and James Walvin, A Jamaican Plantation. The History of Worthy Park 1670-1970 (W.H. Allen, London and New York, 1970) p. 51
1790
[Name] Mowden Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Charles Browne Esquire. Account filed by Charles Mitchell his attorney. Swansea and Mowden Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 433-434 [f.217]
1791
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Charles Mitchell as receiver. Account filed by Charles Michell as attorney to Charles Browne Esquire. Swansea and Mowden Hall filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 264-265 [f.126]
1792
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell attorney of Charles Brown Esquire. Swansea and Mowden Hall filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 200-201 [f.101]
1793
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell one of the attornies of Charles Browne Esq for the year to 31/12/1793. Swansea and Mowden Hall plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 83-84
1794
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Charles Mitchell one of the attornies of Charles Browne Esq for the year to 31/12/1794. Swansea and Mowden Hall plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 116-117
1795
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

In the possession of Charles Patrick Brown one of the attornies of Charles Browne Esq deceased. Account filed by Charles Mitchell of the parish of St Andrew, another attorney of the deceased, for the year to 31/12/1795. Swansea and Mowden Hall plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 218
1796
[Name] Mowden Hall  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

No names recorded. Swansea and Mowden Hall and Browns Hall Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23