Associated People (9) |
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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:
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1734 [SY] - 1745 [EY] → Joint owner
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1734 [EA] - 1743 [LA] → Joint owner
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1743 [EA] - 1765 [LA] → Joint owner
The identity(ies) of Robert Hamilton's co-owners in 1743 and 1765 (John Hamilton, in both cases) has not been definitively traced. In 1765 it was probably his nephew John Hamilton of Sundrum senior. |
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1745 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
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1778 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Attorney
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1797 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
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1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (2) |
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£4,580 8S 3D
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£199 16S 1D
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See www.microform.co.uk/guides/R73075.pdf for an account of the ownership of Pemberton Valley estate. |
Estate Information (34) |
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1720
[Name] Pemberton Valley
Inherited by Jean Mitchell on the death of her father Thomas Mitchell in 1720.
www.microform.co.uk/guides/R73075.pdf
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1734
[Name] Pemberton Valley
Control of Pemberton Valley was gained by Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill on his marriage with Jean Mitchell.
www.microform.co.uk/guides/R73075.pdf
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1743
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Accounts filed from 22nd June - 31st Dec. Belonging to Messers Robert and John Hamilton. Account filed by James Stirling since the owners left the island on 22nd June 1743.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/2 64
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1765
[Name] Pembarton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to Messrs. Robert and John Hamilton of Great Britain. Account filed by John Hamilton as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 172
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1773
[Name] Pemberton Valley
On the death of Robert Hamilton of Bourtreehill, Pemberton Valley was inherited by his eldest daughter Jean, by then Countess Crawford. She controlled one third of the estate while the remaining two-thirds was controlled by trustees.
www.microform.co.uk/guides/R73075.pdf
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1778
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Hugh Hamilton as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 55-6
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1779
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Hugh Hamilton of St. Mary's parish as attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 145
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1780
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Hugh Hamilton as attorney. No ownership details given.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 3
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1781
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No Ownership details given. Account filed by John Gairdner.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 43
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1782
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details. Account filed by John Gardner as overseer and book keeper.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 154-155
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1783
[Name] Pemberton
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Gardner.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 33-4
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1784
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by John Gardner, the overseer and book keeper for the period covered.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 196
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1786
[Name] Pemberton Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by John Gardner, bookkeeper and overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 108
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1787
[Name] Pemberton Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, enslaved hire Account filed by John Gardner.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 123
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1787
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle and mules Account filed by John Gardner as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 201
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1788
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, rents Account filed by John Gardiner as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 211 f.107
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1789
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by John Gardner as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 196
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1790
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by John Gardner as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 35 [f.12]
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1793
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Robert Graeme as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 20
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1794
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Robert Grome as overseer for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 99
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1796
[Name] Pemberton Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Robert Greme? Overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to the heirs of Robert Hamilton deceased and John Hamilton, Esq. Account filed by Robert Grome, planter and overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 101
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1798
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of the heirs of Robert Hamilton deceased and John Hamilton Esq. Account filed by Robert Grame as overseer for the period 01/01/1798 to 31/12/1798.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 85
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1798
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill and two cattle mills 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 Middlesex which he compeleted in 1798.
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1799
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, old iron and copper Property of the heirs of Robert Hamilton Esq deceased and John Hamilton Esq. Account filed by Robert Grame.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 2
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1800
[Name] Pemberton Valley
[Crop] sugar and rum Belonging to the Heirs of Robert Hamilton deceased and Hamilton Esq. Account filed by Robert Grame as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 78-79
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1801
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate
[Crop] sugar and rum The property of the Heirs of Robert Hamilton deceased and John Hamilton Esq of India [=Sundrum?]. Account filed by David Brown as book-keeper on Pemberton Valley Estate.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 187
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1803
[Name] Pemberton Valley Plantation
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow Account filed by Robert Anderson as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 123-124
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 337(Tot) 146(F) 191(M)
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate Alexander Kidston, attorney to John Hamilton of Sundrum, the Right Honble. Hugh Montgomery Earl of Eglinton, Lady Hamilton Cathcart and Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford.
T 71/33 166-177
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 321(Tot) 144(F) 177(M)
[Name] [no name given] Alexander Cameron, attorney, for the heirs of Robert Hamilton and John Hamilton [decrease by deaths].
T 71/34 59-60
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot) 142(F) 173(M)
[Name] Pemberton Valley Alexander Cameron, attorney of the heirs of Robert Hamilton and John Hamilton, deceased [decrease by deaths].
T 71/35 70-72
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot) 142(F) 170(M)
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate William Miller, attorney to John Hamilton, the Right Honble Lady Jane Montgomerie, the Right Honble Lady Lilias Montgomerie or Oswald and Richard Alexander Oswald.
T 71/36 275-276
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot) 127(F) 159(M)
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate William Miller, attorney to John Hamilton, the Right Honble Lady Jane Montgomerie, the Right Honble Lady Lilias Montgomerie or Oswald and Richard Alexander Oswald [decrease by deaths].
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)
[Name] Pemberton Valley Estate William Miller, attorney to John Hamilton, the Right Honble Lady Jane Montgomerie, the Right Honble Lady Lilias Montgomerie or Oswald and Richard Alexander Oswald [decrease by deaths].
T 71/42 51
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1761 - ????
"Free quadroon woman" and mother of eleven children; independently wealthy, perhaps through legacies left her by her partners James Tierney (died 1784) and Ebenezer Robertson (died 1825).
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Pemberton Valley Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/199 [accessed 24th April 2024].
