UCL

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Virgin Islands | Peter Island and Tortola

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Ruth Ann Hill
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Hill
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Jennings Hill
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Ruth Ann Hill

Part of the group of enslaved people previously owned jointly were transferred to her sole ownership between 1831 and 1834.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Mary Hill

Part of the group of enslaved people previously owned jointly were transferred to her sole ownership between 1831 and 1834.

Associated Claims (2)

Virgin Islands 239
£277 6S 8D
Virgin Islands 240
£171 8S 1D

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (5)

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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 70(F) 47(M)  
 

Return of Henry Jennings Hill, Ruth Ann Hill and Mary Hill, owners, in the lawful possession of Henry Hill. Schedule B (increase) show that 120 enslaved people were 'taken over from the general estate of the late Abraham Chalwill Hill deceased'; Tortola

 
T 71/373 295-300
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 63(F) 52(M)  
 

Return of Henry Jennings Hill, R A Hill & M Hill, owners, in their lawful possession; R A and M Hill are Henry Jennings Hill's sisters; Peters Island & Tortola

 
T 71/374 493-494
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot) 8(F) 9(M)  
 

Return of Mary Hill, owner, in the possession of her agent Henry Jennings Hill; 15 of the enslaved people listed are by transfer from the collective ownership of Henry J, Ruth Ann and Mary Hill; Peters Island & Tortola

 
T 71/375 258
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot) 11(F) 6(M)  
 

Return of Ruth Ann Hill, owner, in the possession of her agent Henry Jennings Hill; 14 of the enslaved people listed are by transfer from the collective ownership of Henry J, Ruth Ann and Mary Hill; Peters Island & Tortola

 
T 71/375 259
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Jennings Hill, Ruth Ann Hill and Mary Hill, owners, and in the possession H J Hill for himself and as agent to his sisters; Peters Island & Tortola

 
T 71/375 254