Pen (livestock farm)

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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]

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  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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