Kent

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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
1811 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1809 [SY] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
- 1790 [EY] → Owner
1790 [EA] - 1809 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Not known

'Miss Ann Jarrett' was shown as owner of a group of enslaved people on Golden Grove and Kent 1817-1823. Tentatively associated with Anne Gooch (nee Jarrett), the daughter of Herbert Newton Jarrett IV and Anne Jarrett.

1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Guardian

Mrs Ann Jarrett appears a guardian of her sons John and Stephen in 1820 and 1823; separately a 'Miss Ann Jarrett' appears as owner of a smaller group of enslaved people on Kent between 1817 and 1826, when the last entry recorded her as having sold the enslaved people.


Associated Claims (1)

£4,924 11S 7D

Estate Information (45)

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1785
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by John Chalmers, overseer of Kent Estate.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 47
1788
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Ryan.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 335 f.177
1789
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Shaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 439-440
1790
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Leonard Parkinson.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 419 [f.209]
1790
[Name] Kent  
 

Herbert Newton Jarrett II gave Kent estate to his eldest son John during his lifetime (ie before his death in 1790).

 
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1791
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Shaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 245-246
1792
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Shaw as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 211-212
1793
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, stock of brass, copper and lead  
 

Property of John Jarrett Esq. Account filed by William Shaw as planter, overseer for the period 01/01/1793 to 31/12/1793.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 104-105
1794
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Shaw for the period 01/01/1794 to 31/12/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 89
1795
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Account filed by William Reeves as overseer for the period 01/01/1795 to 31/12/1795.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/21 184
1796
[Name] Kent Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Belonging to John Jarrett, Esq. Account filed by William Reeves, planter.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 64
1797
[Name] Kent Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Owner not given. Account filed by William Reeves, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/22 196
1798
[Name] Kent Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, some cattle  
 

Account filed by William Reeves planter for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 152
1799
[Name] Kent plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Account filed by William Ruves overseer. The property of John Jarrett Esquire.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/25 131-132
1799
[Name] Kent  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawny 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.
1800
[Name] Kent  
[Crop] sugar, rum, one cow  
 

Account filed by William Rees as overseer for the period 31/12/1799 to 31/12/1800.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/27 52
1801
[Name] Kent Plantation  
[Crop] sugar and rum  
 

Owner not recorded. Account filed by William Reeves as overseer. Accounts filed for 1800-1801.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/28 158
1801
[Name] Kent  
 

A mortgage for £10,000 was taken out on Kent estate prior to the marriage of Herbert Newton Jarrett IV in 1801 as part of his marriage settlement. Details are outlined in the will of Herbert Newton Jarrett IV.

 
PROB 11/1526/187
1803
[Name] Kent Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by William Reeves as overseer for the period 31/12/1802 to 31/12/1803.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/31 79
1807
[Name] Kent  
[Crop] sugar, rum and cattle  
 

Account filed by William Reeves as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/37 69
1808
[Name] Kent  
[Crop] sugar, rum, livestock, certificate of natural increase of slaves (�12) and a bastard bullet tree main roller [sic]  
 

Account filed by William Reeves.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 195-196
1809
[Name] Kent  
 

Not named but bequeathed by John Jarrett II to his son Herbert Newton Jarrett [IV] as residuary heir.

 
PROB 11/1504/114
1811
[Name] Kent  
 

Subject to his own marriage settlement with his wife Anne nee Stephens, apparently bequeathed by Herbert Newton Jarrett [IV] to his son John Jarrett III as part of his residuary estate.

 
PROB 11/1526/187
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 241(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 293  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot) 12(F) 4(M)  
[Name] G. Grove and Kent Estates  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as Attorney for G. Grove and Kent Estates as Tenant by parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/225 569-570
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 114(F) 109(M)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as Attorney to the Trustee for the Estates of the late John and H N Jarrett deceased.

 
T71/225 591-598
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 203  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 52  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl as attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett the guardian of her children John and Stephen Jarrett both Infants. "The last return was made by me as attorney to the Trustee for the Estate of John and H N Jarrett deceased"..."These Slaves are acquired by demise under the will of Herbert Newton Jarrett deceased and the Last return was made by me as attorney of the Trustee for the Estates of John and Herbert Newton Jarrett deceased".

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Edward Earl attorney for Golden Grove and Kent Estates as Tenant by parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an absentee and unrepresented.

 
T71/230 Unpaginated
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 217  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 212  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as attorney by substitution of Mrs Ann Jarrett the Guardian of her children John, Stephen Jarrett both Infants. Last return made by Edward Earl the then attorney.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot) 13(F) 4(M)  
[Name] Kent & Golden Grove Estates  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr attorney for Kent & Golden Grove Estates as Tenant by Parol to Miss Ann Jarrett an Absentee and unrpresented. Last return made by Edward Earl the then attorney.

 
T71/232 [unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 197  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 202  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot) 131(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett the Owner. Increase of 5 enslaved people "by purchase from Miss Ann Jarrett, registered in 1823 by one as Tenant by Parol to her an Absentee and unrepresented" .

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 197  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 200  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot) 133(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of William Mitchell Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett, the Owner of Kent Estate.

 
T71/238 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 38  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 238  
 

Registered to heirs of John Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] Kent  
[Stock] 55  
 

Registered to Herbert N. Jarrett.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot) 148(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Kent Estate  
 

In the possession of William M. Kerr as Attorney to John Jarrett the Owner of Kent Estate. Increase of 15 enslaved people by purchase: "from Mary Goddin and registered by her in 1829 as Owner".

 
T71/242 [unpaginated]