John Holmes (1763-1836) was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. [1] He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820. [2]
John Holmes (1763-1836) was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. [1] He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820. [2]
John Holmes was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and was one of the first two U.S. senators from Maine. Holmes was noted for his involvement in the Treaty of Ghent.
Sir Charles Henry Darling was a British colonial governor.
The 84th Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army, raised in 1793. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 65th Regiment of Foot to form the York and Lancaster Regiment, with the 84th becoming the 2nd Battalion, in 1881.
HMS Cherub was an 18-gun Royal Navy Cormorant-class sloop built in Dover in 1806. She participated in two major campaigns in the West Indies during the Napoleonic Wars, and one major engagement in the Pacific during the War of 1812, all each of which earned her crews clasps to the Naval General Service Medal. The Navy sold her in 1820.
Sir Manasseh Masseh Lopes, 1st Baronet, of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British Member of Parliament and borough-monger.
Sir John Rae Reid, 2nd Baronet (1791–1867) was a Scottish merchant and financier. He was a Tory and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1830 and 1847.
George Watson-Taylor, of Saul's River, Jamaica, was a plantation owner and Member of Parliament (MP) at Westminster. In 1810 he married into the family of the planter Sir John Taylor, 1st Baronet, in time adding the Taylor surname to his own, and becoming the richest planter on Jamaica. He bought a house in Cavendish Square, London, and Erlestoke Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire. As MP for a number of constituencies, where he was brought in without contests, he supported the Tory administration, and campaigned for the retention of slavery.
John Blythe was the owner of the Kendal and Tweedside estates in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
Hamilton Brown was a Scots-Irish planter, slave owner, and politician in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, which he represented in the House of Assembly of Jamaica for 22 years. Brown founded the settlement of Hamilton Town in Saint Ann Parish, which was named after him.
John Hanson was a planter in Jamaica and the owner of the Salt Pond Pen. He inherited this estate from his father, the planter and slave owner John Hanson. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
John Rawleigh Jackson was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 representing Port Royal where he was also the chief magistrate in 1831.
John Lunan was a planter and magistrate in Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
John Mais (1778-1853) was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 for the parish of Saint Andrew.
Kenneth Macpherson or McPherson was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
Henry James Passley was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He owned Rodney Hall plantation in the parish of Portland with John Paton Passley and Richard Brown Passley. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820.
Peter Robertson was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He owned Dunrobin Plantation, Friendship Valley Pen, Prospect pen, and the Weybridge Estate, and had interests in others. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 for the parish of Saint Thomas-in-the-East.
William Stimpson was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He owned the Java Plantation in Manchester Parish and had interests in others. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 for the parish of Vere.
John Williams was a planter and slave-owner in Jamaica. He owned the Cool Spring Plantation in Clarendon Parish and had an interest in Provost's Rock River plantation. He had family connections to the Isle of Wight in England. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 for the parish of Clarendon.
John Peeke was the speaker of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1688 and 1706. He owned 173 slaves according to the 1708 return.
Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used. By the early 20th century, however, its cane sugar could not compete with cheaper European beet sugar, and it produced its last sugar crop in 1928. It subsequently became a banana farm for the United Fruit Company.
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