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West Hope

Jamaica | St David

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Associated People (2)

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
1787 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
William Paterson of St David Jamaica and Marylebone
1804 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Previous owner
William Paterson of St David Jamaica and Marylebone

Estate Information (14)

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1787
[Name] West Hope Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton  
 

The property of William Patterson. Account filed by Harry Lumsden Esquire of the parish of Kingston, one of his attornies. Aolus Valley and West Hope Plantations and Mount Pallier Penn all filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 14
1790
[Name] West Hope Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cotton  
 

The property of William Paterson Esquire. Account filed by Patrick Buchannan as overseer. Aeolus Valley, West Hope and Mount Pelier Plantations filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 250-251 [f.126]
1792
[Name] West Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of William Paterson Esquire. Account filed by Andrew Scott as overseer. Aolus Valley, West Hope and Mont Pelier filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 169 [f.85]
1793
[Name] West Hope  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Belonging to William Paterson Esq. Account filed by Andrew Scott as overseer. Aolus Valley, West Hope and Mount Pelier plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 59
1794
[Name] Westhope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Paterson Esq in the possession of the Hon Somon Taylor and James Renny Esqs. Account filed by Patrick Buchannan as overseer. Aeolus Valley, Westhope and Mount Pellier estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 185
1794
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Paterson Esq. Account filed by Patrick Buchanan as overseer. Aolus Valley, West Hope and Mount Pelier estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 210-211
1795
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Paterson Esq under the management and direction of James Renny Esq. Account filed by Patrick Buchanan as overseer. Aolus Valley, West Hope and Mount Pelier estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 211
1796
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to William Patterson, Esq. Account filed by John Ferguson. Qolus Valley, West Hope and Montpelier Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/23
1797
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, tamarinds  
 

Belonging to William Paterson Esq. Account given by James? Renny? Esq. Account filed by James Steel, overseer. Oelus Valley and West Hope Estates filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 105
1798
[Name] West Hope  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by Peter Buchanan overseer West Hope and Mount Peter recorded together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 43
1798
[Name] West-Hope  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in St David 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 Surrey which he compeleted in 1798.
1799
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Paterson Esq. Account filed by James Cumine. Aolus Valley, West Hope and Mount Pelier estates filed together. Crops not differentiated by estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/26 27
1800
[Name] West Hope Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of William Paterson Esq. Account filed by John Latchell. Aolus Valley and West Hope plantations filed together. Crops not differentiated by plantation.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 87
1804
[Name] West Hope Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to William Paterson, Esq, deceased. Account filed in the name of John Satchell, overseer to said estate. Oelus Valley Estate and West Hope Estate filed together.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 103