Trinity plantation

"Trinity Estate, St. Mary's" by James Hakewill, 1820-21.[1]
Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804[2]
1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate.[3]

Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over 1,000 people were enslaved there producing mainly sugar and rum for which a mile-long aqueduct was built by Nathaniel Bayly to supply water for the refining process.

In 1760, slaves from Trinity started a rebellion which grew to over 400 slaves, but was put down with troops sent by the Governor.


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