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Hermitage

Jamaica | St Ann

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Associated People (3)

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
1803 [EA] - 1813 [EY] → Owner
William Parke of the Thicketts and Hermitage
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Eleanor Baldwin Parke
1817 [EA] - → Previous owner
William Parke of the Thicketts and Hermitage

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Ann 23 (Hermitage)
£418 11S 7D

Estate Information (8)

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1798
[Name] Hermitage  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St Ann 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.
1803
[Name] Hermitage Penn  
[Crop] cattle, one jack ass  
 

Property of William Parke Esq. Account filed by William Parke junior as overseer for the period 11/03/1803 to 31/12/1803. Accounts of Hermitage and Tarem penns filed together. Accounts not differentiated by penn.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 211-212
1803
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to William Parke, Esq. Account filed by James Smith, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 3
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 10(F) 5(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Mrs. Elenor Baldwin Parke as tenant for life under the will of the late William Parke, deceased.

 
T 71/43 902-903
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eleanor Baldwin Parke as tenant for life.

 
T 71/44 492
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eleanor B Parke as tenant for life under the will of the late W Parke, deceased.

 
T 71/46 648-649
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Mrs Elenor Baldwin Parke as tenant for life under the will of the late William Parke, deceased.

 
T 71/48 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of E B Parke as tenant for life.

 
T 71/50 562