March's Vale later Ogborn's Vale

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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
1781 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Owner
1786 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1786 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
1788 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Assignee

Assignee of the mortgagees

1809 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Not known

Probably mortgage holder, although the summary of the PCAP is not entirely clear.


Estate Information (15)

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1781
[Name] March Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Charles March Esquire but in the possession of John Grant Esquire as attorney to the Mortgager [=mortgagee]. Account filed by William Hislop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 76
1782
[Name] Mauch Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Charles March Esquire but in the possession of John Grant Esquire as attorney to the Mortgager [=Mortgagee]. Account filed by William Hislop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 210
1783
[Name] March Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Charles March Esq. but in the possession of Alexander McLeod Esq. as attorney to the mortgagees. Account filed by William Hislop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 79-80
1784
[Name] March Vale  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of Charles March Esq. but in the possession of Alexander McLeod Esq. as attorney to the mortgagees. Account filed by William Hislop.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 174
1786
[Name] Marchs Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Charles March Esq but in the possession of Alexander Marsead Esq as attorney to the mortgagee. Account filed by Donald Morison.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 129
1786
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Charles March Esq in the possession of Alexander McLeod Esq attorney to the mortgagees; account filed by Donald Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 140-141
1786
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Account current with Alexander Macleod as attorney to Messrs Stephen & Rose Fuller, mortgagees in possession, for mortgage with Charles March Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 18-22
1786
[Name] Vale Plantation  
 

Interest Account of Charles March Vale Plantation. Account filed by Alex.r Macleod as attorney to Messrs Stephen and Rose Fuller the mortagees in possession.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 41-47
1787
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Charles March Esq in the possession of Alexander McLeod Esq attorney to the mortgagees; account filed by Donald Morison as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 100
1787
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Filed for 1 Jan 1787 to 31 Jul 1788. Full Account filed by Alexander McLeod Esq attorney to the Messrs Stephen and Rose Fuller as mortgagees in possession of the property of Charles March Esq.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 108-118
1787
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Filed for 31 Dec 1787 to 31 Jul 1788. Account filed by Samuel Burtonshaw as book keeper.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 154
1788
[Name] March's Vale Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Filed for 31 Dec 1787 to 31 Jul 1788. Alexander Macleod Esq attorney for Messrs Fullers the mortgagees; account filed by Joseph Wilkins Ogborne as assignee of Messrs Fullers and in possession of the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 154
1788
[Name] Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Full accounts. Estate belnging to Charles March Esquire Accounts filed for 1787, 1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 1-9 f.1-5
1789
[Name] March Vale Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Joseph William Ogborn as assignee of the mortgagees of the estate. Account filed by James Avis as overseer from 31/12/1788 to 19/08/1789 and Lachlan MacKinnon as overseer from 19/08/1789 to 31/12/1789.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 16
1809
[Name] Ogborn's Vale or March's Vale  
 

Subject: Debt: 25 October 1809 respondent [William Hammonds merchant of Bristol but resident in Kingston] filed a bill against the appellant [Foster March] and Mary Rymer Hoyes, John Hoyes and Samuel Murphy, claiming that the respondent [sic] and John Hoyes, merchant of Kingston, deceased, had been co-partners and in November 1808 had become indebted to the respondent; payment of the debts of Joseph Wilkins Ogborn, deceased, Reverend T Simcox and others; the respondent's demand was secured by a mortgage on the Ogborn's Vale otherwise March's Vale plantation [slavery], the recovery of which was sought by foreclosure and sale of the mortgaged premises; the applicant demurred for a delay. Sources TNA, PCAP 13/2/22 Description: Printed appeal to an Appeals Committee of the Privy Council from JAMAICA, Court of Chancery [colonial, Caribbean] Appellant: Foster March. Respondent: William Hammonds, merchant of Bristol but resident in Kingston, Jamaica. Documents: appellants case; respondents case. Folios 483-496 Date: [1812].