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Huntums Gut [Ghut] Estate

Virgin Islands

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
- 1789 [EY] → Previous owner
Bezaliel Hodge

Tentative association only between the mansion and estate left by Bezaliel Hodge in his will in 1789 and the Huntums Gut of the Slave Register in 1822

Notes

The Leslie or Huntums Gut estate of 80 acres was included in the list of property of Ruth Lettsom (q.v.) to be sold in 1825, London Gazette 18089 11/12/1824 p. 2065: Ruth Lettsom had died in 1809. This does not fit with the above evolution for 1822.

Estate Information (1)

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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot) 24(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Huntums Gut [Ghut] Estate  
 

Return of Elizabeth Simpson, owner, returned by William Lookey as renter; schedule B (increase) shows that 52 enslaved people were given over to Lookey by Richard Hetherington Esquire, attorney to Elizabeth Simpson; the enslaved were registered in Schedule A (original return of 1818) by Abram [Abraham] C Hill the former renter

 
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