Spring Head or Springhead (Q492585)
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LBS-PLA-EST-01595
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- LBS-PLA-EST-e828
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Spring Head or Springhead
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Spring Head (or Springhead)
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Originally established when in 1640 Capt. William Woodhouse & William Hawkesworth sold to John Thorborne, 2 plantations: 1. 130 acres in St. Andrew; 2. 150 acres at Four Hills in St. Peter for 48,000 lbs of cotton and 11,000 lbs of tobacco.In 1650 John Parris of Barbados, merchant, bought 70 acres, formerly the property of John Thorbone and 90 acres from the Churchwarden of St. Andrew. The two acr
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eages of 160 acres form a plantation called 'Springhead' on which Parris lived.In 1663 Thomas Parris sold to George Gospright 3 plantations, the property of John Parris, deceased including (1) Springhead, (2) Broome Hall and (3) Scotland. Total acreage 460 acres. Purchase price £5,600 sterling. George Gospright immediately sold the same 3 plantations and a warehouse at Reid's Bay to John Sparke an
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d John Bawden for £6,100 sterling. Sparke and Bawden still owned the plantations by 1674.By 1736, following a series of leases and transfers of ownership, part of the Springhead plantation had become the property of Samuel Osborne (died 1736) , who had also bought the Fullerton plantation. In 1742 his son, Robert Osborne of St Peter's bought, in accordance with his father's will, ½ of Springhead p
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lantation, 185 acres in St. James and St. Andrew. In 1743, his brother James, of St James, mortgaged to him and Joseph Thorpe, of St. George, both the Springhead and Taitt's plantations: 530 acres in St. James and St. Andrew with 289 enslaved. In 1753, Agnes Osborne, the daughter and heir of James Osborne, married Philip Gibbes, later Sir Philip Gibbes bart. [<strong>See also notes on Taitt's plan
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tation</strong>, jointly owned with Springhead, from 1725-c.1846.]
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