Golden Grove, St. John's
Golden Grove is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda. The Golden Grove Primary School is located in the town. History Golden Grove Estate According to William Milder's 1669 will, "To my son Jacob Hill, together with 12 or 13 slaves, is half of my Antigua estate named "Paul's," which I just acquired from the widow Elliner [sic] Paull. The other half of my plantation, as well as my moiety of the sloop "Martha" and half of the ship "Charles" of Nevis, were given to my friend John Travers." In the same year, William Mildon of Bristol and Nevis included his farm known as "Paull Plantation" on the island of Antigua in his will. Thomas Ayson of Bristol, England, left his kinsman 50,000 pounds of muscovado sugar from his plantation in Nevis in the same year. Elliner Paull had just lately acquired it, as was mentioned above. In a petition from William McKinnon in 1698, it was stated that Thomas Trant, a deceased Roman Catholic, was the owner of the Golden Grove Plantation and that William Bridges, Esq. was holding it in trust for him. "By his letter of attorney dated November 1998 appointed Mr. Garret Trant of