Blue Hole

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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:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1766 [SY] - 1796 [LA] → Joint owner
1767 [SY] - 1771 [LA] → Previous owner
21/10/1831 [SD] - → Joint owner
21/10/1831 [SD] - → Joint owner
1766 [SY] - 1808 [LA] → Joint owner
21/10/1831 [SD] - → Joint owner
21/10/1831 [SD] - 1832 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
1762 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Overseer
1762 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Attorney
1762 [EA] - 1766 [EY] → Owner
1766 [EA] - 1808 [EY] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 21/10/1831 [ED] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Previous owner
1832 [EA] - → Trustee

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£2,264 7S 7D

Estate Information (61)

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1756
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses,  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding Esquire, by order of Mr James Kerr, attorney. Account filed by John Jones, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 27
1759
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding Esquire, delivered by order of James Kerr Esquire, attorney. Account filed by Robert Forrester, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 197
1761
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding Esquire, delivered by order of James Kerr Esquire, attorney. Account filed by Robert Forrester, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 196
1762
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 9
1763
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 84
1763
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted in Hanover in Thomas Craskell's 1763 map of Jamaica as a sugar estate with a wind mill.

 
Thomas Craskell's Map of the County of Surry in the Island of Jamaica (1763)
1764
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/4 84
1765
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 10
1766
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 10
1767
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to Benjamin Harding. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 50
1768
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr Esq. as one of the executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 102
1768
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr Esq. as one of the executors.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 222
1769
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/5 158
1771
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr as attorney.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/6 73
1772
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr, one of the exectuors of the said Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 46
1773
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of James Kerr, one of the exectuors of the said Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 72
1774
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, lime  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. As attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 236
1775
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, cotton, ginger, lime  
 

Belonging to the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased. Account filed by Robert Forrester as overseer on the instruction of George Scott and William Brown Esqs. as attorneys to the estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 287
1778
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, wood  
 

the Property of the Heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire Deceased. Delivered by order of George Scott & William Brown, attorneys. Account filed by Henry Scrymgeour (sp?), overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 102
1781
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 78
1782
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 78
1783
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esq. deceased.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 79
1788
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by John Henderson as overseer. Accounts filed for 01/01 1788 to 09/05/1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 94
1788
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Adam Scott as overseer. Accounts filed for 09/05/1788 to 31/12 1788.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 95 [f.48]
1789
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by George Morrison as book keeper

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 157-158 [f.79]
1790
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire deceased. Account filed by Alexander Heron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 30-31 [f.10]
1791
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

The property of the heirs of Benjamin Harding Esquire. Account filed by Alexander Heron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 233 [f.111]
1792
[Name] Bluehole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Messrs Newman and Hardings. Account filed by Alexander Heron as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 280
1793
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Messrs Newman and Harding. Account filed by Alexander Heron, late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 51
1794
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to Messrs Newman and Harding. Account filed by Alexander Alexander, late overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 51
1797
[Name] Blue Hole Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum,  
 

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Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 182
1798
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of Messrs Richard Kitt Newman, Benjamin Harding and John Harding of Great Britain by John Perry Esq attorney for the plantation. Account filed by John Fletcher as overseer for the period 12/01/1798 to 28/03/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 116
1799
[Name] Blue Hall Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by John Fletcher overseer. The property of Messrs Newman and Harding of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 172-173
1799
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill 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.
1799
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Bhole  
 

Registered in Hanover to Heumans and Hardings with 161 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.

 
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 25.
1800
[Name] Blue Hole Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Messieurs [?] Newman and Hardings of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Given in by the order of John and William Perry Esquires, attornies. Account filed by John Fletcher; also sold 5 steers and a 500 gallon still.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 2
1801
[Name] Blue Hall Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Belonging to Messrs Newman and Harding, given in by the order of John and William Perry (?) Esquires, attornies for the said plantation. Account filed by Thomas Howe, late bookkeeper upon Blue Hole Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 148
1803
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

In the possession of Richard H Newman and John Harding Esq.s on the order of Patrick Gray and David Kerr Esq.s attornies for the plantation. Account filed by John Williamson as overseer

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 57
1804
[Name] Blue Hole Estate  
[Crop] sugar and rum, copper, steers, sale of mulatto children  
 

Belonging to Richard Newman and John Harding, Esqs, of Great Britain. Account given in by Patrick Gray and David Kerr, Esqs, attornies for said estate. Account filed by William Somerville, overseer to said estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archvies 1B/11/4/32 131
1807
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Crop] sugar, rum, old brass, old copper, logwood and pimento  
 

Belonging to Messers Newman and Harding of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Account filed by William Prince as overseer and given in by the order of John Tharp Esq. as attorney..

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 81-82
1810
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 56  
 

Registered to Newman, and Harding.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to Newman and Harding.

 
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.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Blue-Hole  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to Newman & Harding.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot) 68(F) 68(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Mrs Eliza Mary Tharp as owner.

 
T71/190 679-681
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 89  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 93  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 94  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Mary Eliza Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Mary Tharp as owner.

 
T71/192 483
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 79  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 81  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Mary Tharp as owner.

 
T71/193 322
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 16  
 

Registered to Mary Eliza Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 15  
 

Registered to Mary Eliza Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 18  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Eliza Mary Tharp as owner.

 
T71/197 105
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 24  
 

Registered to Eliza M. Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 26  
 

Registered to Eliza M. Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Tharp & Benjamin Haughton Tharp as trustees of Eliza Mary Tharp deceased.

 
T71/199 253
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Stock] 25  
 

Registered to Eliza M. Tharpe.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1839
[Name] Blue Hole  
[Size] 798  
 

Registered to Eliza Mary Tharp.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.

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