Industry Estate

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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
1772 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
1779 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Previous owner
1784 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Not known
1800 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Not known

Capacity of Hugh Gray McPherson planter not given, but probably as attorney.

1811 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - → Agent
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner

Bequeathed in his will dated 1822 by Charles Gordon Gray to his wife and son

1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver

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£1,822 0S 3D

Estate Information (49)

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1772
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to Robert Gray Esq. Account filed by John Gray Esq. as one of the attorneys to Robert Gray Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 13
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 360(Tot)  
[Name] Industry & Virgin Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 511  
 

Listed as belonging to Robert Gray with 12 men bearing arms and 3 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 200 hogsheads of sugar.

 
Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm
1777
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Little as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 141-142 f.71
1778
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Robert Gray. Account filed by John Little as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 40
1779
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 4 Sept 1778 to "31st Dec last say 4 Sept 1779". Memorandum Nicholas Smith, merchant, alleging accounts were mislaid for these estates (Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen) for 1779 (?).Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Virgin Valley plantation and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 78
1779
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Robert Gray Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Little as overseer on Virgin Valley, John McVaughton as overseer on Prospect Pen and Stephen White overseer on Industry. Done under the instruction of George Lawson executor to the said Robert Gray. Industry, Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 159
1780
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 4th September 1779 to 4th Sept 1780. Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Industry plantation, Stephen White overseer on Virgin Valley and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 52
1781
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed for 4th September 1780 to 4th Sept 1781. Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Industry plantation, Stephen White overseer on Virgin Valley and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together. Crops listed separately.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 51-52
1782
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed for 4 Sept 1781 to 31 Dec 1782. No ownership details. Account filed by John Little overseer for Industry Estate and Stephen White overseer for Virgin Valley Estate. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 100
1783
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] Livestock  
 

The property of Robert Gray Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Little as overseer on Virgin Valley, John McVaughton as book keeper on Prospect Pen and Stephen White late overseer on Industry. Done under the instruction of George Lawson executor to the said Robert Gray. Industry, Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 86
1784
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of John Grey Esq. Account filed by Stephen White as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 186
1786
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Stephen White.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 143
1787
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Yule planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 217
1788
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by William Yule planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 216
1789
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by William Yule planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 310
1790
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Yale planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 281 [f.140]
1791
[Name] Industry Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Yule planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 303 [f.146]
1792
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Yale, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 107-108
1797
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Gray, Esq. Account given by Lewis Cuthbert and John Perry, Esqs, attornies. Account filed by James Auld, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 178
1798
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of John Gray Esq on the order of Lewis Cuthbert and John Perry Esq.s attornies to the morgagee in possession. Account filed by James Ould as overseer for the period 23/01/1798 to 07/06/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 104
1799
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old iron, jobbing.  
 

Account filed by James Auld overseer. Given in by order of Lewis Cuthbert and John Perry Esquire attornies for said plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 184-185
1799
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St James 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1800
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with John Gray as the proprietor.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.
1803
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  
 

Account filed by H G Macpherson planter for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 14
1803
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owners name not given. Account filed by Richard Lewis, overseer, who has the care and direction of said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 67
1804
[Name] Industry Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed in the name of H G McPherson, planter (status not given).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 191
1807
[Name] Industry  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account presented by Hugh Gray McPherson, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 197
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to John Gray deceased.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 76  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot) 72(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Industry Plantation  
 

In the possession of Wm Burt Wright as agent to persons having morgaged securities on Industry Plantation belonging to the estate of John Gray Esquire deceased.

 
T71/202 388-391
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 90  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Industry Estate  
 

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray jnr as Receiver on Industry Estate.

 
T71/206 233
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 97  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 99  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Industry Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Receiver for Industry Estate.

 
T71/209 132-133
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 86  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 89  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Industry Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Receiver for Industry Estate.

 
T71/214 339-340
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Industry Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Receiver.

 
T71/217 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Industry  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Name] Industry  
[Size] 96  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot) 57(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Industry Estate  
 

In the possession of George Gordon as Receiver.

 
T71/222 187
1839
[Name] Industry  
[Size] 1001  
 

Registered to the heirs of John Gray.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.