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Mesopotamia, Jamaica
Mesopotamia was a sugar plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, north of Savanna-la-Mar on the Cabaritta River. It was adjacent to the Friendship and Greenwich estate. History The plantation was established around 1700 and according to official returns was one of 23 sugar plantations in the parish that employed over 200 slaves."Sugar Production and Slave Women in Jamaica" by Richard S. Dunn in It was associated with the Barham family. It was first in the ownership of Dr Henry Barham (c.1728-1746) and subsequently Joseph Foster Barham (c.1746-1789) and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesopotamia Plantation, Jamaica
Mesopotamia ''Mesopotamíā''; ar, بِلَاد ٱلرَّافِدَيْن or ; syc, ܐܪܡ ܢܗܪ̈ܝܢ, or , ) is a historical region of Western Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia occupies modern Iraq. In the broader sense, the historical region included present-day Iraq and Kuwait and parts of present-day Iran, Syria and Turkey. The Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrian people, Assyrians and Babylonians) originating from different areas in present-day Iraq, dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of recorded history, written history () to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire. Later the Arameans dominated major parts of Mesopotamia (). Mesopotamia is the site of the earliest developments of the Neolithic Revolution from aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westmoreland Parish
Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the island. It is situated south of Hanover, southwest of Saint James, and northwest of Saint Elizabeth, in the county of Cornwall. The chief town and capital is Savanna-la-Mar. Negril, a famous tourist destination, is also situated in the parish. History The earliest inhabitants of Westmoreland were the Arawak and Ciboney Indians. The Ciboney were first to arrive, from the coast of South America, around 500 BC. Known as "cave dwellers", they lived along the cliffs of Negril. The labyrinth of caves and passageways beneath what is now the Xtabi Hotel in Negril are one of the first known settlements of Ciboney Indians in Jamaica. Christopher Columbus stopped at what became Westmoreland on his second voyage when he landed in Jamaica. One of the first Spanish settlements was also built at present-day Bluefields in this parish. The English took over the island from Spanish rule in 1655. Colonists name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savanna-la-Mar
Savanna-la-Mar (commonly known as Sav-la-Mar, or simply Sav) is the chief town and capital of Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. A coastal town, it contains an 18th-century fort constructed for colonial defence against pirates in the Caribbean. History Savanna-la-Mar was originally established as a settlement in Spanish Jamaica. In 1780, the town was completely destroyed by a powerful hurricane known as Savanna-la-Mar hurricane. It was rebuilt, as the port was important to the Atlantic slave trade as well as the sugar trade. After Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833 and before the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, officials of the Caribbean colonies would sometimes order the examination of enslaved people that were held captive on American ships that came to its Caribbean ports. They were to choose between staying in the colony and working to gain their freedom, or remain captive on the ship sailing to the United States. In the cases of the ''Enterprise'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabaritta River
The Cabarita River, originally the Cabaritta, is a river in Jamaica. The Mayfield River is a tributary. See also * List of rivers of Jamaica References GEOnet Names Server * OMC MapCIA Map*Ford, Jos C. and Finlay, A.A.C. (1908).''The Handbook of Jamaica.'' Jamaica Government Printing Office Rivers of Jamaica Westmoreland Parish {{Jamaica-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friendship And Greenwich Estate
The Friendship and Greenwich was a plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, north of Savanna-la-Mar on the Cabaritta River. It was adjacent to the Mesopotamia estate. In 1875, it came up for sale at auction in London by order of the Court of the Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies 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 c ... when it was in the ownership of the estate of the late Edward Muirhead Earle.''Jamaica, Particulars of a Valuable Sugar Estate, known as the "Friendship and Greenwich" Estate &c.'', 5 May 1875. London: Hards, Vaughan, & Jenkinson. See also * List of plantations in Jamaica References External links * Westmoreland Parish Plantations in Jamaica {{Jamaica-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Barham
Henry Barham F.R.S. (1670?–1726) was an English writer on natural history. Life He was born about 1670, and was descended from the Barhams of Barham Court in Kent. He has often been confused with his son, Henry Barham, M.D., who became the owner of several sugar plantations and a significant quantity of slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. The main events of the life of the elder Henry Barham are recorded by himself in one of his letters to Sir Hans Sloane. His father, a physician, intended to give him a university education, but died before he could carry out his wishes. As the mother married soon afterwards, the boy, then about fourteen years of age, was left to his own resources, and became apprentice to a surgeon. This situation he left to become surgeon's mate in the ''Vanguard'', from which he was promoted to be master surgeon in another man-of-war. He went to Spain, thence to Madras, and thence to Jamaica. As in 1720, he refers to his son as having practised physic an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Foster Barham
Joseph Foster Barham, the younger (1759 – 28 September 1832) was an English politician, merchant and plantation owner. Life He was the son of Joseph Foster Barham I (formerly Joseph Foster) of Bedford and his wife Dorothea Vaughan. Thomas Foster Barham was his brother. Because he was brought up as a Moravian, the younger Joseph was barred from Eton and Oxford, so his parents sent him to a Moravian school in Germany. In 1781, while travelling back from Jamaica to England, he was captured by an American privateer, and kept prisoner for several months, until he was finally released, and allowed to return home. He later converted to the Church of England, which then allowed him to pursue a political career. Mesopotamia and Island Estates In 1779, young Joseph went to Jamaica to inspect his father's estates in Jamaica's western Westmoreland Parish, which he then managed for the next two years. He spent money renovating the great houses, but the estate's attorney, John Van Heilen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Foster Barham II
Joseph Foster Barham, the younger (1759 – 28 September 1832) was an English politician, merchant and plantation owner. Life He was the son of Joseph Foster Barham I (formerly Joseph Foster) of Bedford and his wife Dorothea Vaughan. Thomas Foster Barham was his brother. Because he was brought up as a Moravian, the younger Joseph was barred from Eton and Oxford, so his parents sent him to a Moravian school in Germany. In 1781, while travelling back from Jamaica to England, he was captured by an American privateer, and kept prisoner for several months, until he was finally released, and allowed to return home. He later converted to the Church of England, which then allowed him to pursue a political career. Mesopotamia and Island Estates In 1779, young Joseph went to Jamaica to inspect his father's estates in Jamaica's western Westmoreland Parish, which he then managed for the next two years. He spent money renovating the great houses, but the estate's attorney, John Van Heilen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buddle Blyth
John Buddle Blyth (1814 – 24 December 1871) was a Jamaican-born chemist who was the first professor of chemistry at Queen's College Cork in Ireland. With August Wilhelm von Hofmann, he was the first to report photopolymerisation which they observed when styrene became metastyrol after exposure to sunlight. Early life and family John Blyth was born in Jamaica in 1814 to John Blythe and Mary Buddle, a "free woman of colour". He was baptised at Mesopotamia in Westmoreland Parish on 11 April 1816 by Edmund Pope, rector of Westmorland, and described as a "free child of colour".John Buddle Blyth Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880. Family Search. Retrieved 12 January 2019. He had brothers Charles (181 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blythe (Jamaica)
John Blythe (died 1830s) was the owner of the Kendal and Tweedside estates in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica.John Blyth. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 12 January 2019. He was elected to the in 1820. Hakewill, James. (1825) A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, From Drawings Made in the Years 1820 and 1821. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Plantations In Jamaica
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and Parishes of Jamaica, parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as Sugar plantations in the Caribbean, sugar cane and coffee, while livestock Pen (Jamaican cattle farm), pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption. Both industries used the forced labour of enslaved peoples. James Robertson (surveyor), 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. Cornwall County Hanover * Axe and Adze * Bachelor's Hall * Betsy Mount * Caldwell * Chester Castle * Comfort Hall * Cousins Cove * Cottage * Haughton Court * Haughton Grove * Haughton Hall * Haughton Tower * Hopewell (Bucknor's) * Prospect * Knockalva * Retirement * Rock Springs * Salt Spring * Saxham * Tryall Saint Elizabeth * Appleton * Chocolate Hole * Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Establishments In Jamaica
The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 ( MDCCI) to December 31, 1800 ( MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions. During the century, slave trading and human trafficking expanded across the shores of the Atlantic, while declining in Russia, China, and Korea. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures, including the structures and beliefs that supported slavery. The Industrial Revolution began during mid-century, leading to radical changes in human society and the environment. Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715–1789, denoting the period of time between the death of Louis XIV of France and the start of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on directly interconnected events. To historians who expa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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