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Agualta Vale Pen

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Associated People (14)

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
1769 [SY] - 1780 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Hibbert senior
1780 [SY] - → Tenant-in-common
Robert Hibbert of Chalfont Park and Birtles Hall
1780 [SY] - → Tenant-in-common
Thomas Hibbert of Chalfont
1780 [SY] - → Tenant-in-common
Thomas Hibbert of Agualta Vale
1807 [SY] - 1855 [EY] → Trustee
John Hibbert
1807 [SY] - 1837 [EY] → Trustee
Rev. John Mansfield
1807 [SY] - 1842 [EY] → Trustee
John Smith MP
1807 [SY] - 1845 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
Thomas Hibbert junior
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
James Simpson
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Hibbert of Agualta Vale
1826 [EA] - → Agent
William Lambie III
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
James Simpson
1829 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Attorney
William Lambie III
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Simon Taylor of Kingston

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Mary 1 (Agualta Vale Pen)
£3,817 6S 11D

Notes

Bought by Thomas Hibbert senior in 1769 when it was pasturage, woods and a coffee plantation. A large part of the land was developed into a sugar estate by Thomas Hibbert senior in the 1770s, with a substantial pen. Bequeathed to his nephews Thomas (1774-1819), Robert (1750-1835) and Thomas (1761-1807) as tenants in common on the death of Thomas Hibbert senior in 1780.

By 1796 the estate and pen appear to have been owned by Thomas Hibbert of Aqualta Vale (1761-1807). He bequeathed his real estate in Jamaica to his eldest son Thomas Hibbert (1795-1845) in trust to heirs male. Aqualta Vale became the subject of the Chancery suit Washington Hibbert & others v Thomas Hibbert & others following disputes over the settling of Thomas Hibbert's will.

See Agualta Vale Estate (JA10739) for entries in the Accounts Produce.

Estate Information (9)

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1769
[Name] Agualta Vale  
 

'In 1769 Thomas [Hibbert] purchased a 3,000 acre estate at Aqualta Vale in what is today the parish of St. Mary's but was then St. George's, although serious cultivation did not begin until 1771. The land had been in large part wood and pasture with limited coffee growing capacity. He transfored the usage of the estate, replacing the coffee with a sugar estate and large cattle breeding pen...'

 
Kate Donington, 'The Benevolent Merchant?' (UCL PhD thesis, 2013) p. 57
1780
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Bequeathed by Thomas Hibbert senior to his three nephews Thomas (1744-1819), Robert (1750-1835) and Thomas (1761-1807) as tenants in common.

 
Caribbeana vol. 4 p. 193
1807
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Thomas Hibbert bequeathed all his real estate in Jamaica in trust for his eldest son Thomas Hibbert (1795-1845) in tail to heirs male.

 
Caribbeana vol. 4 p. 197
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 817(Tot) 418(F) 399(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased. Assumed to be Orange Vale, Aqualta Vale Estate and Aqualta Vale Pen.

 
T 71/33 1097-1121
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 126(F) 132(M)  
[Name] Aqualta Vale Pen  
 

James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased.

 
T 71/34 221-221v
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot) 112(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Aqualta Vale Pen  
 

James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert [decrease by removal to Orange Hill Estate].

 
T 71/35 420-423
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot) 116(F) 105(M)  
[Name] Aqualta Vale Pen  
 

William Lambie, agent of the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased.

 
T 71/36 123-124
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot) 110(F) 106(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

William Lambie and Simpson Taylor, attornies appointed by the High Court of Chancery.

 
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 108(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Aqualta Vale Pen  
 

In the possession of William Lambie & Simpson Taylor & Co. as attornies appointed under decree of the High Court of Chancery. Late return, filed in 1833.

 
T71/200 39

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Hakewill
Hakewill