According to a Dutch map of 1759, a plantation, numbered 12 and named Peeters Hall, was created in 1755 and owned by Pieter Haley.

[2] A 1798 Dutch map shows Peter's Hall as a coffee plantation[4] but the crop later changed to sugar as shown on the 1832 map of St Mathew's Parish by which time the Sage Pond coffee plantation, served by Canal Number 3, had been created to the east behind Peter's Hall.

[8][9] The 1832 map of St Mathew's Parish shows "195 Negroes" and a note (B) that the plantation contained a rectory, a church, and a school room.

[1] Following the abolition of slavery in the British colonies in 1833, claims and counter-claims were made in London for compensation for the loss of slaves at Peter's Hall of £9,256.

Workers often deserted, including 50–60 who were mostly Chinese, and efforts were being made by the manager William Dudley Scott to recover them with mixed success.

The facilities at Peter's Hall included a small "hospital", a "gambling room" and a one-room school that the teacher complained the children were discouraged from attending by the driver (supervisor).

Some European observers thought the participants largely harmless although the colonial government took a more disapproving view and there was sometimes violence from both sides.