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Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1741 [EA] - 1756 [LA] → Previous owner
Henry Gale
1752 [EA] - 1754 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Henry Gale jun.

Estate Information (8)

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1741
[Name] Tennants  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, fustick and Lignum Vitae  
 

Estate of the late Henry Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Knox as overseer. The estates of Salt Spring and Tennants were filed together.

 
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1742
[Name] Tennants Estate & Pens  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, livestock, fustick and Lignum Vitae  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late Henry Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Knox as overseer. The estates of Salt Spring and Tennants were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 10
1743
[Name] Tennants  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses and livestock  
 

Belonging to the late Henry Gale Esq. deceased. Account filed by William Knox as overseer of the plantation. The estates of Tennants and Salt Spring were filed together.

 
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1752
[Name] Tennant  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, old copper and a "negroe man sent off"  
 

Estate of Henry Gale a minor and absentee in Great Britain. Account filed by Peter Sergeant as guardian to the said Henry Gale. The estates of Fullers Wood, Salt Spring and Tennant were filed together.

 
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1754
[Name] Tennant  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, old pewter and livestock  
 

Estate of Henry Gale a minor. Account filed by Peter Sergeant attorney and guardian to the said Henry Gale a minor. The estates of Salt Spring, Tennant and Fullerwood were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 176 - 177
1755
[Name] Tenant's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, cattle, rental of enslaved people  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Peter Sergeant. Salt Spring and Tenant's Estate filed together, crops given for both together.

 
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1756
[Name] Tenant's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton, copper, cattle  
 

Estate of Henry Gale Esquire deceased. Account filed by Peter Sergeant, overseer. Salt Spring and Tenant's Estate filed together.

 
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1757
[Name] Tenant's Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, logwood, fustick, cattle  
 

Estate of Jonathan Gale Esquire deceased. Account filed by Peter Sergeant Esquire. Salt Spring and Tenant's Estate filed together with no differentiation of crops.

 
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