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Amity Hall first appears in Lloyd's Register in 1789 with G. Young, master, G. Tarbutt, owner, and trade London–Jamaica. [1] Amity Hall was probably named for Amity Hall plantation, an important sugar estate in Vere Parish, Jamaica. The ship herself was at least the second vessel by that name that Tarbutt had owned.
James Robertson's map of Jamaica, published in 1804 based on a survey of 1796–99, identified 814 sugar plantations and around 2,500 pens or non-sugar plantations. [ 3 ] Cornwall County
Born in London, Goulburn was the eldest son of a wealthy planter, Munbee Goulburn, of Amity Hall, Vere Parish, Jamaica, and his wife Susannah, eldest daughter of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] Goulburn lived in Betchworth, Dorking, in Betchworth House for much of his life.
Rose Hall. This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
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The Sumner Hill Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of high-quality late 19th-century residences in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is roughly bounded by Seaverns Avenue, Everett Street, Carolina Avenue, and Newbern Street just east of the neighborhoods commercial Centre Street area.
Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay , Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses , it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored.
Johnson Hall State Historic Site was the home of Sir William Johnson (1715–1774) an Irish pioneer who became the influential British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Province of New York, known for his strong relationship especially with the Mohawk and other Iroquois League nations.