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Mount Prosperous

Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey

Estate Details

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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
1768 [EA] - 1770 [LA] → Previous owner
Augustus Valette
1776 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Previous owner
Nathaniel Grant

Notes

See York estate for slave register and almanac entries.

Estate Information (19)

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1768
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Alexander Fraser as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 124
1769
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Donald McMillan as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 187
1770
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the estate of Augustus Valette Esq. deceased. Account filed by Donald McMillan as overseer. Entry notes profits for the sale of "a negroe named Quamina who was sentenced for transportation" to Mr. John Dakers. Under this entry it was noted "Omitteed a negroe named Othello who was sentenced to transportation in 1769."

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 20
1776
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 71
1778
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 136
1778
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 68-9
1779
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 171
1780
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of Nathanial Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Robert Grant, overseer. York & Mount Prosperous Plantations all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 20
1781
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Part of the real estate of Nathaniel Grant. Account filed by William Grant. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 93
1782
[Name] Mount Prosperous Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Nathaniel Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by Lewis McPherson, overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 184
1783
[Name] Mount Prosperous  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The estate of Nathaniel Grant Esq. deceased. Account filed byLewis McPherson as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous were listed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 48
1784
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Estate of Nathaniel Grant deceased. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 19
1786
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant, overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 131
1786
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estates of Nath.l Grant Esq deceased; account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 131
1787
[Name] Mount Propsperous plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Propsperous plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 99-100
1788
[Name] Mount Propsperous plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by James Grant as overseer. York and Mount Propsperous plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 102-103 [f.52]
1789
[Name] Mount Prosperous Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estates of Nath.l Grant Esquire deceased. Account filed by William Reid as overseer on both plantations. York and Mount Prosperous Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 294
1790
[Name] Mount Prosperous plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The estate of Natahaniel Grant Esquire. Account filed by William Reid as overseer. York and Mount Prosperous plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 403-404
1798
[Name] Mt Prosperus  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.