Dalvey

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1765 [SY] - → Owner

Dalvey estate was acquired by Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bt. between 1765 and 1768. It was an estate of 2,023 acres. To begin with the estate had 284 enslaved people labouring on it. Grant paid £21,055 for it. In the 1772 probate inventory the estate was recorded as having 161 enslaved labourers working on it. The property was valued at £9,876 but David Hancock has suggested that this valuation probably did not include the value of the land.

1787 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Overseer
1790 [EA] - 1825 [EY] → Owner

Although Grant died in 1825,and was succeeded by his son Sir Alexander Cray Grant Dalvey continued to be listed ambiguously as under the ownership of 'Sir Alexander Grant' up until the 1831 Jamaica Almanac which was based on the givings in for 1830.

1826 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner

Estate Information (55)

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1765
[Number of enslaved people] 284(Tot)  
[Size] 2023  
 

The information David Hancock used was taken from the Deed Books, Old Series Vols. 146-256 passim, at the Island Record Office, Spanishtown, Jamaica.

 
David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.
1766
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 76
1767
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 76
1768
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by Alexander Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 140
1769
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 199
1770
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by Lewis Cruikshanks as book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 17
1770
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John Grant.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 23
1771
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1772
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John Allen.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1773
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 151
1774
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1775
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 145
1776
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by John McColl.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 146
1778
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of the late Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by Lachlan Grant as overseer on Dalvey.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 146
1779
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased. Account filed by Lachlan Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 149
1782
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of the Heirs of the late Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by Lachlan Grant, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 158
1785
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. deceased; account filed by Cathcart Smith, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 83
1786
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property if the heirs of the late Alesander Grant, Bart deceased; account filed by Lewis Cruickshank, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 118
1787
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of the heirs of the late Sir Alexander Grant; account filed by Lewis Cruickshank, bookkeeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 217
1787
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The real estate of the heirs of Sir Alexaander Grant Bart. deceased. Account filed by James Samson as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 34-35 f.18
1789
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. deceased. Account filed by James Samson as planter overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 422
1790
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart. Deceased. Account filed by John McKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 59-60
1792
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Sir Alexander Grant bart deceased in the possession of his representatives. Account filed by John McKenzie as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 282-283 [f.142
1793
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Sir Alexander Grant bart deceased in the possession of his representatives. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 419 [f.210]
1794
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Property of Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased in the possession of his representatives. Account filed by Solomon Morales, wharfinger on Alexander Sindes wharf.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 36
1795
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, coffee, some cattle  
 

In the possession of the heirs and executors of Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 87
1796
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant, Esq, dec. Account given by Robert Ross, Esq, acting attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant, Brt, dec. Account filed by William Smith, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 138
1798
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Smith now overseerThe possession of the representatives of Sir Alexander Grant Baronet deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 31
1798
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with two cattle mills and a windmill 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.
1799
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

In the possession of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart Esq deceased. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 187
1800
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of the heirs of Sir Alexander Grant Bart Esq deceased. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 155
1801
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Now in the possession of Sir Alexander Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 195
1803
[Name] Dalvey Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of the heirs of Sir Alex.r Grant Bart deceased. Account filed by William Smith as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 156
1804
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed in the name of David Burke, overseer of said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 137
1807
[Name] Dalvey  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper,hire of enslaved people, sale of millhouse.  
 

Account filed by Patrick Curvin as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 26
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 123  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 136  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 91(F) 82(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Francis Graham as attorney to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet.

 
T71/145 301-306
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Bell as attorney to Sir Alexander Grant.

 
T71/146 154-156
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 169  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 157  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Bell as attorney to Sir Alexander Grant Baronet.

 
T71/147 141-142
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 183  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 129  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 91(F) 80(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Bell as attorney of Sir Alexander Gray Grant Bart.

 
T71/148 131-132
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 28  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot) 83(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Dalvey Estate  
 

In the possession of James Bell as attorney to Sir Alexander Gray Grant Baronet.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Dalvey  
[Stock] 14  
 

Registered to Sir Alexander Grant, Baronet.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1839
[Name] Dalvey and Friendship Castle  
[Size] 1150  
 

Registered to estate of James Bell.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.