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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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1780 [SY] - → Tenant-in-common
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1807 [SY] - 1855 [EY] → Trustee
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1807 [SY] - 1837 [EY] → Trustee
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1807 [SY] - 1842 [EY] → Trustee
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1807 [SY] - 1847 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
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1769 [SY] - 1780 [EY] → Owner
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1780 [EA] - → Tenant-in-common
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1793 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Overseer
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1780 [SY] - → Tenant-in-common
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1796 [EA] - 1807 [EY] → Owner
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1796 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Overseer
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1799 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Overseer
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1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
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1826 [EA] - → Agent
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1829 [EA] - 1832 [EY] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£5,507 18S 0D
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Bought by Thomas Hibbert senior in 1769 when it was pasturage, woods and a coffee plantation. Developed into a sugar estate by Thomas Hibbert senior in the 1770s. Bequeathed to his nephews Thomas (1774-1819), Robert (1750-1835) and Thomas (1761-1807) as tenants in common on the death of Thomas Hibbert senior in 1780. By 1796 the estate appears to have been owned by Thomas Hibbert of Aqualta Vale (1761-1807). He bequeathed his real estate in Jamaica to his eldest son Thomas Hibbert (1795-1845) in trust to heirs male. Aqualta Vale became the subject of the Chancery suit Washington Hibbert & others v Thomas Hibbert & others following disputes over the settling of Thomas Hibbert's will. |
Estate Information (21) |
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1769
[Name] Agualta Vale
'In 1769 Thomas [Hibbert] purchased a 3,000 acre estate at Aqualta Vale in what is today the parish of St. Mary's but was then St. George's, although serious cultivation did not begin until 1771. The land had been in large part wood and pasture with limited coffee growing capacity. He transfored the usage of the estate, replacing the coffee with a sugar estate and large cattle breeding pen...'
Kate Donington, 'The Benevolent Merchant?' (UCL PhD thesis, 2013) p. 57
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1780
[Name] [no name given]
Bequeathed by Thomas Hibbert senior to his three nephews Thomas (1774-1819), Robert (1750-1835) and Thomas (1761-1807) as tenants in common.
Caribbeana vol. 4 p. 193
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1793
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Allan Cameron as overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 76
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1794
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Allan Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 155
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1795
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Allan Cameron as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 175
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1796
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum Belonging to Thomas Hibbert Esq. Account filed by Archibald Carmichael.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
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1797
[Name] Agualta Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum Account filed by Archibald Carmichael as overseer for the period 01/01/1797 to 31/12/1797.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 31
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1798
[Name] Agualta Vale Plantation
[Crop] sugar and rum Account filed by Archibald Carmichael overseer of Agualta Vale Plantation.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 5-6
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1798
[Name] Agualta Vale
[Crop] Sugar Plotted in St Mary as a sugar estate with a watermill 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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1799
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Robert Catanach as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 9
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1800
[Name] Agualta Hall Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Robert Catanach as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 175
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1801
[Name] Agualta Vale
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock (cattle) Owner details not recorded. Account filed by Robert Catanach.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/29 203
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1803
[Name] Agualta Vale Estate
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle Account filed by Robert Catanach as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 118
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1807
[Name] [no name given]
Thomas Hibbert bequeathed all his real estate in Jamaica in trust for his eldest son Thomas Hibbert (1795-1845) in tail to heirs male.
Caribbeana vol. 4 p. 197
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1807
[Name] Agualta Vale
[Crop] sugar and rum Account presented by Robert Catanach.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 178
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 817(Tot) 418(F) 399(M)
[Name] [no name given] James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased. Assumed to be Orange Vale, Aqualta Vale Estate and Aqualta Vale Pen.
T 71/33 1097-1121
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 340(Tot) 182(F) 162(M)
[Name] Aqualta Vale Estate James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased. Total number of enslaved people given as 340 when the total should be 344.
T 71/34 222v-223v
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot) 182(F) 166(M)
[Name] Aqualta Vale Estate James Simpson, agent to the executors and trustees of Thomas Hibbert, deceased.
T 71/35 419-420
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 352(Tot) 188(F) 164(M)
[Name] Aqualta Vale Estate William Lambie, agent of the executors and trustees of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased.
T 71/36 121-123
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 354(Tot) 192(F) 162(M)
[Name] Aqualta Vale Estate William Lambie, attorney to the executors of the late Thomas Hibbert, deceased.
T 71/38 [unpaginated]
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot) 182(F) 156(M)
[Name] Aqualta Vale Estate William Lambie, Simpson Taylor & Co. as attornies appointed by the High Court of Chancery for Aqualta Vale Estate.
T71/200
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Associated documents (1) |
???? - 1848
Successful planter in British Guiana and Grenada; part of a close-knit mixed-race family with numerous business interests.
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:
'Agualta Vale Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/10739 [accessed 5th November 2024].
