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.
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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
Joseph Foster Barham II (c.1789-1832).
The chemist
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 obs ...
was baptised at Mesopotamia in 1816.
[John Buddle Blyth Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880.]
Family Search. Retrieved 16 January 2019. [John Blyth.]
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019. His father
John Blythe was attorney for Mesopotamia in the early 19th-century.
Mesopotamia.
University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
See also
* 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 c ...
References
External links
*https://books.google.com/books?id=JrMyBQAAQBAJ&dq=Mesopotamia+in+Westmoreland+Parish&pg=PA62
Westmoreland Parish
18th-century establishments in Jamaica
Plantations in Jamaica
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