Associated People (2) |
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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:
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1768 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Previous owner
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1776 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Previous owner
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See York estate for slave register and almanac entries. |
Estate Information (19) |
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1768
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander Fraser as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 124
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1769
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Donald McMillan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 187
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1770
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the estate of Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Donald McMillan as overseer. Entry notes profits for the sale of "a negroe named Quamina who was sentenced for transportation" to Mr. John Dakers. Under this entry it was noted "Omitteed a negroe named Othello who was sentenced to transportation in 1769."
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 20
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1776
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 71
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1778
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 136
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1778
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 68-9
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1779
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 171
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1780
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum The estate of Nathanial Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant, overseer. York & Mount Prosperous Plantations all filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 20
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1781
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Part of the real estate of Nathaniel Grant. Account filed by William Grant. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 93
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1782
[Name] Mount Prosperous Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle Property of Nathaniel Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Lewis McPherson, overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Estate filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184
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1783
[Name] Mount Prosperous
[Crop] sugar and rum The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed byLewis McPherson as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous were listed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 48
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1784
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Estate of Nathaniel Grant deceased. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 19
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1786
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant, overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 131
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1786
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum The estates of Nath.l Grant Esq deceased; account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 131
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1787
[Name] Mount Propsperous plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Propsperous plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 99-100
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1788
[Name] Mount Propsperous plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Propsperous plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 102-103 [f.52]
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1789
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum The estates of Nath.l Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Reid as overseer on both plantations. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 294
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1790
[Name] Mount Prosperous plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum The estate of Natahaniel Grant Esquire. Account filed by William Reid as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous plantations filed together.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 403-404
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1798
[Name] Mt Prosperus
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
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1787 - 1835
Daughter of "free Mulatto" lodging-house-keeper Jane Charlotte Beckford (c. 1759-1825); possibly the daughter of George Ffrench, Clerk to the Jamaica Assembly. Spinster; independently wealthy slave-owner.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Mount Prosperous [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2281 [accessed 25th November 2024].
