Associated People (9) |
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:
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22/01/1765 [SD] - → Joint owner
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- 1797 [EY] → Attorney
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1784 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Owner
It is not cleat that the entry for Joseph Brissett refers in fact to Cacoon (or Cocoon) Castle Pen (which appears to have been in the possession of the Clarke family throughout): it might refer to Cacoon [JA 7286] instead, or to a third estate not yet identifiied |
1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Attorney
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1797 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Overseer
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1817 [EA] - → Owner
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1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
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1832 [EA] - → Attorney
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Associated Claims (1) |
£2,806 10S 6D
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Estate Information (48) |
1779
[Name] Cocoon Pen
[Crop] Livestock The property of Lady Ann Clarke. Account filed by Alexander Philips as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 135
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1780
[Name] Cocoon Castle Pen
[Crop] Livestock Account filed by Alexander Philips as overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/9 207
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1781
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys No ownership details given. Account filed by Alexander Philips, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 75-76
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1782
[Name] Cacoon Castle Pen
[Crop] Livestock Account filed by Alexander Philips and Charles Watt as overseers.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/7 173
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1783
[Name] Cocoon Castle
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys No ownership detail given. Account filed by Charles Watt, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 72-73
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1784
[Name] Cocoon Castle Penn
[Crop] Horses, Mules, Sheep, cattle, goats, ducks, fowls, turkeys No ownership detail given. Account filed by Charles Watt, overseer.
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 76
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1786
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)
[Name] Cacoon Pen [Size] 468 Joseph Brissett owned Cacoon Pen in Hanover, Jamaica, which he mortgaged to his uncle John Tharp, William Miles of Bristol, and others, 12/05/1786. At the time the estate covered 468 acres and included 147 enslaved people. Papers relating to bonds held on Cacoon estate between John Tharp and Joseph Brissett 1785-1806 are held in the Tharp Papers in Cambridge County Record Office.
Description of Tharp papers at and
People of InterestDorothy Diana Yates (née Smellie)???? - 29th Aug 1873 Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873. Documents of InterestWindsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document. © Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
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