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  2. List of plantations in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    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

  3. Williamsfield, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... and was a merchant in Kingston" [1] ... B. W. (2001), Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and ...

  4. Green Park Estate, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    In the 1760s Thomas Southworth, a merchant from Kingston in partnership with John Kennion, a kinsman of Edward Kennion, changed the name of the estate from Green Pond to Green Park, and started to transform it from being a cattle farm, into a large sugar plantation. [2] He died shortly after he commenced construction of the main residence in 1764.

  5. Colony of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    In 1852, Jordon became mayor Kingston, a post he held for 14 years, and he was speaker for the Assembly in the early 1860s. [93] The Jamaica Railway, constructed in 1845, was the first line opened to traffic outside Europe and North America. The first line ran from Spanish Town to Kingston. [94]

  6. Mona, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, approximately eight kilometres from Kingston, Jamaica. A former sugarcane plantation, it is the site of a reservoir serving the city of Kingston and the main campus of the University of the West Indies.

  7. Thomas Harrison (surveyor) - Wikipedia

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  8. Edward McGeachy - Wikipedia

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    He proposed a "perfect" map of Jamaica, travelled to England in 1831 to promote it, obtained the agreement of a dedication from the King, and returned in January 1832. It was never completed, however, after the House of Assembly of Jamaica refused financial support due to a downturn in the plantation economy with the abolition of slavery looming.

  9. James Robertson (surveyor) - Wikipedia

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    He moved to Jamaica in 1778/9 and leased out cattle to plantation owners. He made maps from at least 1791. In 1796 he successfully lobbied the House of Assembly to commission him for three years to map the entire island. He completed his one inch to a mile series of maps in November 1799 and was further commissioned to create more detailed maps ...

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