Golden Grove

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
17/08/1763 [SD] - 20/09/1809 [ED] → Tenant-for-life
20/09/1809 [SD] - 1849 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
1834 [SY] - 17/08/1763 [ED] → Owner
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Annuitant

In her will made in 1771, Elizabeth Kersey described an annuity she held on Golden Grove, a mortgage on the estate that had been assigned to her by Peter Vallette and a number of enslaved people whom she rented to the estate.

1794 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Overseer
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Trustee

Associated Claims (2)

£7,483 10S 6D
£6,320 17S 10D

Estate Information (52)

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1765
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdeckne. Account filed by Simon Taylor as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 153
1766
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdeckne. Account filed by Simon Taylor as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 23
1767
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdeckne. Account filed by Simon Taylor of Kingston as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 76
1779
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdeckne. Account filed by Simon Taylor of Kingston as one of the attorneys.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 157
1780
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Simon Taylor Esq. of Kingston.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 214
1781
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Charlenor (sp?) [ink stain over the rest of name]. Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 111
1782
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

No ownership details. Account filed by Anthony Madden, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 195-196
1784
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer on Golden Grove plantation. Golden Grove and Bathchelors Hall Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/11 194-5
1786
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Anthony Madden, overseer. Golden Grove Plantation/Batchelors Hall Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 139
1786
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Chalnor Arcedeckne Esq; account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer. Golden Grove Estate and Batchelors Hall Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/13 144
1787
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Chaloner Arcedeckne Esquire. Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer. Golden Grove Estate and Batchelors Hall Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 26-27 f.14
1788
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer. Accounts filed for 11/12/1787 to 31/12/1788 [exact end date unclear].

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 388
1789
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esquire. Account filed by Anthony Maddox as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 386
1790
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdeckne Esquire. Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 44-45
1791
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of Chaloner Anderson Esquire. Account filed by John Taylor attorney for the plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 352
1792
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esquire. Account filed by Anthony Madden as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 244
1793
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Simon Taylor.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 64-65
1794
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 199
1794
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 113
1795
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 198
1796
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, beef, heifers, steers  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank, overseer. Golden Grove Plantation/ Bachelors Hall filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedechne?, Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 196
1798
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer on the plantation. Golden Grove Plantation and Batchelors Hall Penn filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 164
1798
[Name] Golden-Grove  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Thomas-in-the-East as a sugar estate with two watermills 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.
1799
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Account filed by Lewis Cruikshank overseer. Golden Grove and Bachelors Hall Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 203-204
1800
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Austeckne (?) Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer. Golden Grove Plantation and Batchelors Hall Penn filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 31
1801
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock (cattle)  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedickene Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer. Livestock from Batchelors Hall Pen. sugar and rum presumably only from Golden Grove (both estates filed together).

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 166
1803
[Name] Golden Grove Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Belonging to Charles Arcedeckne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 213
1804
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Arcedekne, Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruikshank, oversee to said estate. Golden Grove and Bachelor's Hall Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 187
1807
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Crop] sugar, rum, beef and cattle  
 

Belonging to Chaloner Archdickne Esq. Account filed by Lewis Cruickshank as overseer. The estates of Golden Grove Plantation and Bachelors Hall Pen were filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 51
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 682(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 830  
 

Registered to Chaloner Arcedeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for 1810.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 680(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 384  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeacon [Arcedeckne].

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812por.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1811.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 602(Tot)  
[Name] Golden-Grove  
[Stock] 260  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1815.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 685(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 237  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al09.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1817.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 761(Tot) 376(F) 385(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of William Shand as attorney of Andrew Arcedeckne Esq.

 
T71/145 24-42
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 731(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1819.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 717(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 226  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_07.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1820.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 715(Tot) 360(F) 355(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

In the possession of The Honourable William Shand as attorney to Andrew Arcdeckine.

 
T71/146 7-10
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 714(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 234  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p10.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1821.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 677(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 224  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1823.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 679(Tot) 349(F) 330(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Kenneth Macpherson as attorney for Andrew Arcedeckene Esq.

 
T71/147 6-9
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 668(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 212  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1825.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 660(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
[Stock] 204  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al06.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1826.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 665(Tot) 343(F) 322(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCormack Esq as attorney of Andrew Arcedeckine Esq.

 
T71/148 6-8
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 665(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1827.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 654(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1828.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 659(Tot) 335(F) 324(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCornock as attorney for Andrew Arcedeckine Esq.

 
T71/149 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 656(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1830
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 646(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32stie.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1831.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 635(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove  
 

Registered to Chaloner Archdeckne.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33STIE.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1832.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 640(Tot) 334(F) 306(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

In the possession of Thomas McCornock as attorney of Andrew Arcedeckine Esq.

 
T71/150 12
1839
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 4524  
 

Registered to Andrew Arcedeckne. Assumed to be Bachelor's Hall Pen and Golden Grove.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Thoseast.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in for the March Quarter, 1839.