Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Slavery - echoes of the past . . . .

The Cockpit County Heritage Trust of Kingston, Jamaica, undertook a survey the results of which were published in a pamphlet during 2009. [1356]

Figure 20: Map of Zone 9 sites - including the Ashley Hall Plantation, Jamaica. [1356]

The accompanying text provides a history of ownership from 1817 onwards and names John Miller and Cowper as owners, changing to John Cooper in 1821, John L. Walcott in 1824. I suspect these persons were more likely to have been overseers and/or managers since John Ashley (father of the Rev. John Ashley) is listed as owner in the period 1796 until at least 1839.

In 1882 the extent of the property was 600 acres of which 21 was in ground provisions, 20 in common pasture and pimento and 559 in wood and runiate.