Peartree Grove

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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
1799 [EA] - → Owner
1809 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Receiver
1830 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Receiver

Associated Claims (1)

£3,244 7S 1D

Estate Information (20)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
 

Registered in St Thomas-in-the-Vale to Charles Jones with 116 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, taken at an extraordinary vestry 02/11/1799. The same source gives, in the previous three years, a total of 44 births, the deaths of 14 "Natives" and 13 "Imported" enslaved people and 1 enslaved person "Imported within three years of their deaths".

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 48.
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 62  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Pear-Tree-Grove  
[Stock] 85  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 88  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1817) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1817_01.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 81  
 

Registered to the estate of Charles Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot) 90(F) 91(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rossiter as receiver for the estate of Charles Jones Esquire deceased.

 
T71/25 545-550
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 65  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter for estate of C. Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter for estate of Charles Jones. No numbers of stock or enslaved people, page torn.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 98(F) 89(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rofsiter as receiver for the estate of Charles Jones dec.

 
T71/26 321-322
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 104  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter for estate of Charles Jones.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot) 101(F) 93(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Rofsiter as receiver for the estate of Charles Jones dec.

 
T71/27 312
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 95  
 

Registered to Thomas Rossiter.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1825) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1825_02.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 99(F) 93(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Peter Burnett and George Wright esq as recievers of the estate of Charles Jones dec.

 
T71/28 145-146
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 69  
 

Registered to Peter and Louisa Burnett and George Wright, receivers.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot) 92(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Peartree Grove Plantation  
 

In the possession of George Wright as receiver.

 
T71/31 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 43  
 

Registered to George Wright, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Pear Tree Grove  
[Stock] 40  
 

Registered to George Wright, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Peartree Grove  
 

In the possession of George Wright Esquire as receiver for Peartree Grove.

 
T71/32 348
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Peartree Grove  
[Stock] 74  
 

Registered to George Wright, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIV.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1839
[Name] Peartree-Grove  
[Size] 673  
 

Registered to George Wright, receiver.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thosvale.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.