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Map of the counties: 1) Cornwall County, 2) Middlesex County, 3) Surrey County. Jamaica is divided into three historic counties, though they have no administrative function today. They were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system. [9]
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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.
Jamaica's three counties (Surrey, Middlesex and Cornwall) were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system. [2] Surrey was named after the English county in which Kingston upon Thames is found. [ 2 ]
Map of Jamaica: Benedetto Bordone: A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. 2: 1562: Isola Cuba Nova: Girolamo Ruscelli: Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. [2] 4: 1572: Jamaica: Tomaso Porcacchi
Saint Catherine (Jamaican Creole: Sent Cyatrine) is a parish in the south east of Jamaica.It is located in the county of Middlesex, and is one of the island's largest and most economically valued parishes because of its many resources.
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Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It has no current-day administrative significance. [citation needed] It covers 5,041.9 km 2 and has a population of 1,183,361 [1] (about 45% of the island's area and population) giving it the largest area and population of the three counties.