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Pickerings

Barbados | St Michael

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1795 [LA] → Owner
Sir Francis Ford 1st Bart.
- 1772 [LA] → Owner
Francis Ford of Lears

Bequeathed to his son [Sir] Francis Ford I under the will of Francis Ford made in 1772 and proved in 1773.

1795 [EA] - → Owner
George Wilson
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
Dr Grant Ellcock
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Timothy William Halls
1835 [EA] - → Owner
Bezsin King Reece

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 129 (Pickering's)
£1,322 9S 2D

Notes

Pickerings, St. Michael – see Moll II, Bowen Map – NE of Wildey The planation was originally established by 1674 by William Marsall. In 1680 it was 180 acres in St Michael. However, by 1716 it was in the hands of John Pickering of St Lucy, the son and heir of Col. Joseph Pickering of St. Lucy. He seems to have owned (1) a plantation in St. Lucy and (2) one in St. Michael. (An annuity for his mother, Ann Pickering, was secured on both.) In 1736 John Pickering of St. Lucy mortgaged to Thomas Withers and Thomas Harrison for £8,000 which was part of a total debt of £9,500. The plantation was 246 acres in St Michael and Pickerign owned 69 enslaved people.

Estate Information (10)

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1795
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Size] 205  
 

At some point before 1795 Pickering's plantation was owned by Sir Francis Ford. In 1795 he sold it to George Wilson for £7,500 sterling.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot) 89(F) 60(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Grant Ellcock, Executor, the property of the estate of George Wilson, deceased.

 
T71/520 566-69
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Size] 205  
 

6 March 1819 it appears to have been put up for sale.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Timothy William Halls, his own property. Previously 97 enslaved.

 
T71/529 302-3
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Timothy William Halls, his own property.

 
T71/534 255
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Pickerings  
 

Return of Timothy W. Halls, his own property. NB that this appears to be different from the Pickerings estate in St Lucy.

 
T71/540 267
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Size] 250  
 

Timothy William Halls mortgaged Pickerings to Lee & Garner, business partners, for £7,315.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Timothy William Halls, his own property.

 
T71/547 277
1835
 

Pickering's as bought by Bezsin King Reece from chancery 1835.

 
Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 87.
1837
 

In 1837-38 St. Barnabus Chapel School was built on lands given by Bezsin K. Reece on the former Pickerings plantation but which had become part of the Pine estate.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.