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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. |
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1787 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Overseer
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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. |
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1826 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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
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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.
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
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:
'Dalvey [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2825 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
