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Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 [2] 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate. [3] Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over ...
The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 1854, 1858, 1862, 1864, 1872, and 1886 that allowed creditors and other interested parties to apply for the sale of estates (plantations) in the British colonies in the West Indies despite legal encumbrances that would normally prevent such a sale.
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.
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within the west-central side, of Jamaica. The land is marked by lush, montane forests and steep-sided valleys and hollows , as deep as 120 metres (390 ft) in places, separated by conical hills and ...
It was established in 1734 as a sugar estate by Attorney General of Jamaica Andrew Arcedeckne, [1] and was subsequently run by his son Chaloner Arcedeckne. [2] In 1775, John Kelly (the supervisor of the plantation) recorded a total yield of 740 hogshead of sugar, more than double that of 1769 (350).
Nevertheless, in an illiquid real estate market or if real estate prices drop, the property being foreclosed could be sold for less than the remaining balance on the primary mortgage loan, and there may be no insurance to cover the loss. In this case, the court overseeing the foreclosure process may enter a deficiency judgment against the ...
Jamaica College Buildings: Simms Hall, Scotland Building, Assembly Hall, Chapel; Charlottenburgh House, Guava Ridge; Mico College Buildings: Kelvin Lodge, Cottage, Porter's Lodge, Chapel; Admiral's Mountain Great House, Cooper's Hill; Cherry Garden Great House, 46 Russell Heights; Devon House, Hope Road; Mona Great House, off Mona Road