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Bushy Park

Jamaica | St Catherine

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1793 [EA] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
Colonel John Henderson
1793 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Attorney
William McRobbie

Estate Information (6)

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1793
[Name] Bushy Park Penn  
[Crop] cotton, pasturage, hire of enslaved people, wharfage, rents, one goat, cattle  
 

Estate of John Henderson Esq, late of Jamaica and then of Great Britain. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Clear Mount Estate, Port Henderson, Goshen and Bushy Park Penns filed together. Crops not differentiated by penn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 58
1794
[Name] Bushy Park Pen  
[Crop] Mules, sheep, goats, lime, wood, pasturage, cart hire, rents, grass, sugar and rum  
 

Estate of John Henderson Esq, late of Jamaica and then of Great Britain. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen and Bushy Park Penns and Port Henderson filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 161-162
1796
[Name] Property of John Henderson: Bushy Park Penn  
[Crop] grass, cattle, sheep, corn, stone, lime, rents  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen, Bushy Park and Marly Mount Penns, Port Henderson, a Guinea Grass piece [of land] and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated between penns.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 78
1797
[Name] Property of John Henderson: Bushy Park Penn  
[Crop] grass, cattle, sheep, corn, stone, wharfage, lime, rents  
 

Property of John Henderson Esq. Account filed by William McRobbie his attorney. Goshen, Bushy Park and Marly Mount Penns, Port Henderson and Clear Mount Estate filed together. Crops not differentiated between penns.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 78
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Bushy Park and Goshen  
[Stock] 201  
 

Registered to John Henderson.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.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] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Bushy Park etc.  
[Stock] 219  
 

Registered to John Henderson. The same registration, for 89 enslaved people and 219 stock, was given in the 1812 almanac for St Thomas-in-the-Vale, as "Bushy Project".

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.