Blue Castle Estate, Westmoreland

Geschichte

Information obtained by the Center for the Study of Legacies of British Slave-ownership at University College London:

Rum was distilled on the domain 'Bluecastle Estate, Westmoreland' at least between 1760 and 1807.

[Die Quelle: Legacies of British Slave-ownership (relevante Seite), zitiert 2019]

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Falmouth Post (Jamaica), February 27, 1877

Several awards were made to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia 1876 in the Jamaica Section of the:
[...]
For Rum: Georgia Estate, Amity Hall Estate, Blue Castle Estate, New Works Estate, Lansquinet Estate, Hordley Estate.

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Handbook of Jamaica 1905:

Sugar estate in cultivation in Jamaica in the year 1903-1904

Name of estate	Blue Castle
Owner	Samuel H. Morris
Attorney of owner
Acres cane	198
Acres other	1,283
Type of mill	Steam
Process of manufacture	Centrifugal
Hhds * sugar	281
Punchns * rum	191

* 1 hoghead = 238 l, 1 puncheon = 318 l

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