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Hannah's Sea Cow Bay Estate

Virgin Islands | Tortola

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
- 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
George Hannah
1818 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Ann Pooley previously Donovan (née Hannah)

The estate was in the hands of a Receiver between 1825 and 1834.

Associated Claims (1)

Virgin Islands 29
£1,532 2S 6D
Inferred association

Estate Information (6)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 56(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Sea Cow Bay and Mount Fertile  
 

Return of Catherine Taylor Hannah & Mary Ann Donovan, owners in the lawful possession of Bezl H Donovan[Bezeliel Howel Donovan as found in his own entry on page 257] manager and attorney

 
T 71/370 259-262
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 54(F) 55(M)  
 

Return of Catherine Taylor Hannah and Mary Ann Donovan, owners, in the possession of Robert Valentine Shew as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/371 330-331
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot) 57(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Hannah's Sea Cow Bay Estate  
 

Return of Catherine Taylor Hannah and Mary Ann Donovan, owners, in the lawful possession of Richard King the elder as Receiver in Chancery ; returned by Robert Valentine Shew as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/372 623-624
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 59(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Hannah's Sea Cow Bay Estate  
 

Return of Catherine Taylor Hannah & Mary Ann Pooly late Donovan, owners, in the lawful possession of Richard King Receiver in Chancery; returned by Robert Valentine Shew as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/373 29-30
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 56(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Hannah's Sea Cow Bay Estate  
 

Return of Catherine Taylor Hannah and Mary Ann Pooley, owners, in the possession of Richard King as receiver; returned by Robert Valentine Shew as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/374 347-352
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 57(F) 48(M)  
 

Owner: Heirs of the late George Hannah Esquire deceased and in the possession of Richard King as Receiver in Chancery; returned by Robert Valentine Shew as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/375 188