Matthew Wallen

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1797

Biography

Resident slave-owner in Jamaica, variously described as a Captain in the British Navy or an 'Irish Admiral', previous owner of Chiswick and known for his garden at Cold Spring on the St Andrew/Portland border.

DIED: At Cold Spring, in Port Royal Mountains, Matthew Wallen, Esq., Member of Assembly for Port Royal.
Cold Spring is assumed to be the same estate as Mount Pleasant, owned by Matthew Wallen and consisting of 85 acres in St Andrew in 1753.

Sources

http://www.heritagegardensjamaica.com/history.htm [accessed 17/08/2017]; B. W. Higman, Slavery, Freedom and Gender: The Dynamics of Caribbean Society p. 100.

CARIBBEANA, Volume IV MARRIAGES AND DEATHS FROM "THE COLUMBIAN MAGAZINE OR MONTHLY MISCELLANY" Published in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1796-1799: JANUARY, 1797.
CO137/28 pp. 169-175 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1753Andrew.htm.

Further Information

Children

Mary Player

Associated Estates (3)

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

1780 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Owner

Chiswick [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

- 1797 [EY] → Other

Cold Spring, Clifton Mount and Enfield [ Jamaica | St Andrew ]

Matthew Wallen established the gardens at Cold Spring, on the St Andrew/Portland border, reportedly in 1746, building a new house in 1788, and dying there in January 1797.

Other

Wallenford [ Jamaica | St George ]

Matthew Wallen fl 1780s was of Wallenford and Cold Spring,