Pen (livestock farm)

A pen was a livestock farm on the Island of Jamaica. Pen-keeping included the breeding of cattle, horses, mules, sheep and dairy farming.[1] Gardner (1873), referring to the 1750s, stated: "The life of a tolerably successful pen-keeper was at this period, as it is now, the most enviable to be found in the colony. Cattle thrive well, and few servants are required when once a pen is well established."[2]

1889 map of Thetford Pen in the Parish of St. Catherine, Jamaica, containing 2,034 acres, the property of Louis Verley Esq.

Batchelors Hall Pen was owned by Chaloner Arcedekne; it supplied Golden Grove Plantation, owned by the prominent Simon Taylor. Correspondence between the two men survives.[3]

See also

References

  1. Jamaica in 1896. A Handbook of Information for Intending Settlers and Others, pamphlet, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, 1896, pp. 14–17.
  2. William James Gardner, A history of Jamaica: From its discovery by Christopher Columbus to the year 1872, 1873, p.160
  3. Betty Wood, T.R. Clayton and W.A. Speck, The Letters of Simon Taylor of Jamaica to Chaloner Arcedekne, 1765–1775, Journal of Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series, Volume 19, July 2002 , pp. 1-164

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