Mesopotamia was a sugar plantation in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, north of Savanna-la-MarMesopotamia Plantation, Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica. Geni. Retrieved 16 January 2019. on the Cabaritta River. It was adjacent to the Friendship and Greenwich estate.
History The plantation was established around 1700 and according to official returns was one of 23 sugar plantations in the parish that employed over 200 slaves."Sugar Production and Slave Women in Jamaica" by Richard S. Dunn in
It was associated with the Barham family. It was first in the ownership of Dr Henry Barham (c.1728-1746) and subsequently Joseph Foster Barham (c.1746-1789) and Joseph Foster Barham II (c.1789-1832).
The chemist John Buddle Blyth was baptised at Mesopotamia in 1816.John Buddle Blyth Jamaica, Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880. Family Search. Retrieved 16 January 2019. John Blyth. Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019. His father John Blythe was attorney for Mesopotamia in the early 19th-century.Mesopotamia. University College London. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
See also List of plantations in Jamaica
References
External links https://books.google.com/books?id=JrMyBQAAQBAJ&dq=Mesopotamia+in+Westmoreland+Parish&pg=PA62