Hope transformed : a historical sketch of the Hope landscape, St. Andrew, Jamaica, 1660-1960 / Veront M. Satchell.
"The historic Hope lands located on the Liguanea Plain in the southeastern parish of St Andrew, Jamaica, and once the site of one of the island's earliest sugar estates, has had a long history of human settlements dating back to approximately 600 CE, the era of the indigenous Tainos. It wa...
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Kingston, Jamaica :
University of the West Indies Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Dawn of hope
- Hope within the landed gentry, 1656-1914
- Flourishing hope, 1660-1821
- Fading hope, 1822-1848
- Refocusing hope, 1848-1871
- Hope rekindled, 1871-1908
- Hope for the people, 1909-1960
- The hope Palimpset
- Appendices. Proclamation carried over by Lord Windsor dated 13 car II anno 1661
- Extracts from two major Richard Hope's land patents
- Will of Richard Hope, 1670
- Will of Roger Elletson, 1691
- Extracts from the will of Richard Elletson, 1742
- Extract from the conveyance of sale of part of Hope Estates to the Kingston and Liguanea water works company, 1850
- Blue Castle housing scheme submitted by the housing association.