Associated People (10) |
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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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Book-keeper
For 18 months in the early- to mid-1820s. |
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Book-keeper
Dates unclear - in the early- to mid-1820s |
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1811 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
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1775 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Owner
In 1775 Rose Hering May and his wife Mary Trelawney mortgaged property including shares in Gymballs and Cherry Garden and the enslaved people attached to them to Thomas Pennington and Abraham Biggs of Bristol for £6000, without disclosing that the property had already been mortgaged to William Gray, who later assigned the prior and larger mortgage to Jacob Israel Bernal (q.v.). Litigation was launched by the heirs of Pennington and Biggs, and between May and Bernal, that was settled in 1784. |
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1775 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
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1780 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
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1790 [EA] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,779 17S 3D
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Estate Information (37) |
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1775
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Alexander Hunter late the overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/8 15
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1778
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Patrick Burke as overseer. Listed with Gymballs.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 104
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1778
[Name] Gymballs
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Patrick Burke as overseer. Listed with Cherry Garden.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 104
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1779
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Patrick Burke as overseer. Listed with Gymballs.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 83
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1779
[Name] Gymballs
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Patrick Burke as overseer. Listed with Cherry Garden.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 83
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1780
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar and rum Note reads "formerly consisting of two estates named Gymballs and Cherry Gardens". Mr Jacob Israel Bernal, merchant, being mortgagee in possession of the estate. Account filed by Patrick Burke as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 207-8
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1781
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate (fomerly two estates called Gymbals and Cherry Garden)
[Crop] sugar, rum In the possession of Jacob Israel Bernal, merchant mortgagee. Account filed by Patrick Burke, planter overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 121
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1782
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum in the Possession of Jacob Israil Bernal Esquire. Account filed by Francis Morley, planter overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 120
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1783
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum No ownership details. Account filed by Francis Morley, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 193
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1783
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by James Sullivan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 54
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1790
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar, rum The property of J.J. Bernal Esquire. Account filed by George Knowles as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 294-295
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1794
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Property of Jacob Israel Bernal Esq. Account filed by Daniel Nolan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 168
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1795
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Daniel Nowlan as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 244
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1795
[Name] Cherry Garden Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Jacob Israel Bernal. Account given by Amon Nunes Henriquez, attorney.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 19
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1798
[Name] Cherry-Garden
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Dorothy as a sugar estate with a cattlemill 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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1808
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock Account filed by Daniel Nowland.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 210
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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Stock] 31 Registered to Jacob Israel Birnal.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Stock] 45 Registered to Jacob J. Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812cat.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)
[Name] Cherry-Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 129 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 171 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot) 108(F) 132(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Jackson as attorney to Ralph Bernard Esquire.
T71/13 97-101
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 251(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 86 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of William Jackson as Attorney for Ralph Bernal Esq.
T71/14 122-123
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 73 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 156 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot) 118(F) 136(M)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Charles Smith and Francis McCook as Attorneys for Ralph Bernal Esq MP.
T71/15 2
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 122 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al04.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 126 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al02.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Charles Smith and Francis McCook as Attornies to Ralph Bernal Esq.
T71/16 129-130
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 20 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al03.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 21 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stivdor.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Charles Smith and Francis McCook as Attornies to Ralph Bernal Esq.
T71/17 130
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Crop] Listed as an estate so likely sugar. [Stock] 30 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stiv.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Stock] 48 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)
[Name] Cherry Garden [Stock] 83 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Doro.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of Ralph Bernal Esq as owner.
T71/18 381
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1839
[Name] Cherry Garden
[Size] 1246 Registered to Ralph Bernal.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Dorothy.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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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:
'Cherry Garden [ Jamaica | St Dorothy ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2626 [accessed 19th April 2024].
