UCL

Crawle

Jamaica | St Catherine

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1765 [SY] - 1772 [LA] → Owner
Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bart.

Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bt. purchased Crawle in 1765. The property consisted of 662 acres and 191 enslaved people were recorded as working there. The price was valued at £7,714, the price was commuted to English pounds sterling from Jamaica island currency. David Hancock culled this information from the Deed Books, Old Series, Vols. 146-256 passim at the Island Record Office in Spanishtown, Jamaica.

At present, LBS shows Sir Alexander Grant as owner of Crawle in St Thomas-in-the-Vale; a St Catherine estate of that name has not been identified in the Accounts Produce, although a Crawle Pen has been.

Notes

NB At present Crawle in St Thomas-in-the-Vale has been recorded by LBS under Sir Alexander Grant 1766-1771.

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1765
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Size] 662  
 
David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.