Virgin Valley Estate

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  

Belonging to Robert Gray Esq. Account filed by John Gray Esq. as one of the attorneys to Robert Gray Esq.

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[Number of enslaved people] 360(Tot)  
[Name] Industry & Virgin Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  
[Stock] 511  

Listed as belonging to Robert Gray with 12 men bearing arms and 3 women or children; the same source gives the estate producing 200 hogsheads of sugar.

Edward Long, 'A List of Sugar Estates and other Properties in the Parish of Saint James as they were in the Month of September 1774 shewing the number of white People residing in said Parish particularising those able to bear Arms, the number of Slaves & Stock & the number of hogsheads of Sugar made on the several Estates in the Crop of the year 1774' transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/StJames1774.htm

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed by James Leslie as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 141-142 f.71

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Robert Gray. Account filed by John Little as overseer. Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 40

[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed for 4 Sept 1778 to "31st Dec last say 4 Sept 1779". Memorandum Nicholas Smith, merchant, alleging accounts were mislaid for these estates (Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen) for 1779 (?).Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Virgin Valley plantation and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together.

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[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Robert Gray Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Little as overseer on Virgin Valley, John McVaughton as overseer on Prospect Pen and Stephen White overseer on Industry. Done under the instruction of George Lawson executor to the said Robert Gray. Industry, Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 159

[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed for 4th September 1779 to 4th Sept 1780. Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Industry plantation, Stephen White overseer on Virgin Valley and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together.

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[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Account filed for 4th September 1780 to 4th Sept 1781. Property of Robert Gray Esquire Deceased. Account filed by John Little overseer on Industry plantation, Stephen White overseer on Virgin Valley and John McNaughton overseer on Prospect Pen. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates & Prospect Pen all filed together. Crops listed separately.

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[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  

Account filed for 4 Sept 1781 to 31 Dec 1782. No ownership details. Account filed by John Little overseer for Industry Estate and Stephen White overseer for Virgin Valley Estate. Industry & Virgin Valley Estates filed together.

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[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Robert Gray Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Little as overseer on Virgin Valley, John McVaughton as book keeper on Prospect Pen and Stephen White late overseer on Industry. Done under the instruction of George Lawson executor to the said Robert Gray. Industry, Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 86

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

The property of Robert Gray Esq. deceased. Account filed by John Little as overseer on Virgin Valley and John McVaughton as book keeper on Prospect Pen. Done under the instruction of George Lawson executor to the said Robert Gray. Virgin Valley and Prospect Pen were registered together.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 85

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Charles Gordon Gray of Chiltern, Conty Wilts; account filed by John Little, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 67

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esq of Warminster, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the estate; account filed by John Little as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 223-224

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle, hire of enslaved people  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esquire of Warminster, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the estate. Account filed by John Little as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01/1788 to 15/01/1789.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 329 f.162

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esquire of Warminster, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the estate. Account filed by James Walter Paterson as overseer. Accounts filed for 15/01/1789 to 31/12/1789.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 333 f.164

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esquire of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by Walter Paterson as overseer. Accounts filed for 04/01/1790 to 12/06/1790.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 285-286 [f.142]

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esquire of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer. Accounts filed for 28/01/1791 to 03/06/1791.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 410-411 [f.195]

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

The property of Charles Gordon Gray Esquire of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the orders of John Perry Esquire attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer. Accounts filed for 25/01/1792 to 02/06/1792.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 422-423 [f.201]

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  

Property of Charles Gordon Gray Esq of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 21/01/1793 to 10/06/1793.

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[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  

Property of Charles Gordon Gray Esq of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 16/01/1794 to 10/05/1794.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 140-141

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum  

Property of Charles Gordon Gray Esq of Warminster, Wiltshire, Great Britain on the order of John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 19/01/1795 to 17/05/1795.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 254-255

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum.  

Account filed by John Ritchie, overseer.

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[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, lamp oil, hire of enlaved people, steers mules,cattle and carts  

Belonging to Charles Gordon Gray? Of GB. Account given by John Terry, attorney. Account filed by John Ritchie, overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 187

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  

Property of Charles Godon Gray Esq of Baicliff [Baycliff], Wiltshire, Great Britain on the order of John and William Perry Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 22/01/1798 to 28/06/1798.

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[Name] Virgin-Valley  
[Crop] Sugar  

Plotted in St James 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 Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  

Property of Charles George Gray Esq of Baicliff [Baycliff] Wiltshire, Great Britain on the order of John and William Perry Esq.s, attornies for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 17/01/1800 to 30/07/1800.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 164-165

[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  

Listed in St James in the Earl of Balcarres's letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, with Charles Gordon Gray as the proprietor.

Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 26. The number of enslaved people was recorded on 01/10/1799.

[Name] Virgin Valley Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  

Belonging to Charles Gordon (?) Gray Esq of B--- in the County of Wilts in the Kingdom of Great Britain. Account given in by order of John and William Perry Esquires, Attornies for said plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer.

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 141

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old copper  

Property of Charles George Gray Esq of Friary Park, Great Britain on the order of John Ritchie attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer for the period 02/11/1802 to 21/06/1803.

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[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, house rental, land rental and hire of enslaved people  

Belonging to Charles Gordon Gray of _____ Park in the Kingdom of Great Britain Esq. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer and given in by order of John Ritchie attorney for the plantation. Filed for 1807 (23rd Jan-23rd July).

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 127-128

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Crop] sugar, rum, land rental, house rental, hire of enslaved people and hire of enslaved people  

Belonging to Charles Gordon Gray of Tracy Park in the Kingdom of Great Britain Esq. Account filed by John Ritchie as overseer and given in by order of John Ritchie Esq. as attorney for the plantation. Filed for 1808 (11th Jan-22nd July).

Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 204-205

[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 40  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11James.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 22  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin-Valley  
[Stock] 148  

Registered to Charles Gordon Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot) 83(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray as attorney to Charles Gordon Gray Junior.

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[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 135  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 145  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of Charles Gordon Gray jnr as Attorney to Charles Gordon Gray snr, owner of Virgin Valley Estate.

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[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 141  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 138  

Registered to Charles G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p16.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of George Gordon as Exor to Chas G. Gray jnr decd, the late Attorney of Charles G. Gray snr decd and as settled on Virgin Valley Estate.

T71/209 133-134

[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 126  

Registered to Charles G. Gray deceased.

Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 113  

Registered to heirs of C. G. Gray senior.

Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Heirs of Charles Gordon snr decd.

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[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 118  

Registered to heirs of C. G. senior Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  

Registered to heirs of C. G. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al18.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 2  

Registered to heirs of C. G. Gray sen..

Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Heirs of Charles Gordon Gray decd.

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[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 19  

Registered to Charles G. Gray senior deceased.

Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 164  

Registered to heirs of Charles G. Gray senior.

Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32jame.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Stock] 12  

Registered to heirs of Charles G. Gray senior.

Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 79(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Virgin Valley Estate  

In the possession of George Gordon as Attorney to the Heirs of Charles Gordon Gray snr decd.

T71/222 188

[Name] Virgin Valley  
[Size] 1040  

Registered to heirs of Charles L. Gray.

Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40James.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.