Barbados 3213 (Fairy Valley)

Parliamentary Papers p. 189.

T71/898: claim by John Rycroft Best, of Christ church. Counterclaim from the Daniels, of Mincing Lane, London, judgement creditors, May 1818, for £4500.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 44: J.R. Best managed Fairey Valley for his father: Daniels were consignees and held mortgages of £14,500. Ibid. p. 86: this award and that for Moonshine Hall was used to reduce accumulated interest, the Daniels left the loan at interest, purchased a small estate [Harburton] in 1834.

T71/555: John Rycroft Best registered 219 enslaved persons on Fairy Valley estate, as the property of the estate of TB to which he is executor.