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North Sound and Olivers

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1784 [EY] → Owner
Richard Oliver Alderman of London and MP

Owner of Olivers which he inherited from his father Rowland Oliver in 1767 according to Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana Vol. I p. 192.

- 1791 [EY] → Owner
William Smith of Grenada

William Smith of Grenada sold the Oliver's Old plantation in the parish St John and Body division of Antigua in 1791 to the trustees under the will of Jonas Langford Brooke.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Peter Langford Brooke

Notes

Not yet definitively traced in the compensation records but appears to be the estate identified as 'Jonas' in the compensation records.

Vere Langford Oliver provided an unsourced account that appears consistent with the scattered evidence in family wills:

'Olivers estate of 500 acres in St. John's Parish and Body Division was patented by my ancestor, the Hon. Col. Richard Oliver, in 1710 and at his death in 1716 it passed to his two sons, the Hon. Major Richard Oliver, and the Hon. Col. Rowland Oliver, who in 1725 divided the estate, then of 520 acres. I have no definite history of the descent of Richard's moiety, except that about 1787 his son Tho. Oliver, the lessee of Bendals, probably used it as a cattle-run. Col. Rowland Oliver, who inherited the other moiety, died 1767, leaving an only son and heir, Alderman Richard Oliver, M.P., who died s.p. 1784, and bequeathed his moietv to his cousin. Win. Smith of Grenada.....who sold it for £8432 c. m [sic] 1791, to his cousins, the Langford-Brookes of Mere Hall, Cheshire, who finally parted with their estates about twenty years ago. In the deed of 1791 the estate was bounded N. and W. by Tho. Oliver.'

Caribbeana Vol. I p. 192.

Estate Information (6)

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1791
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Olivers  
 

By an indenture of 21/03/1791 William Smith of Grenada but at present of Antigua sold Oliver's Old plantation in the parish of St John and the Body division of Antigua to the trustees under the will of Jonas Langford Brooke deceased.

 
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. 2 pp. 328-29
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] North Sound and Olivers  
 

John Gore as attorney to Peter Langford Brooke Esq. proprietor on his North Sound estate and his estate called Olivers

 
T71/245 424-427
1821
[Name] North Sound and Olivers  
[Size] 121  
 

John Hopkins attorney of Peter Langford Brooke Esquire proprietor on his North Sound estate and on his estate called Olivers

 
T71/246 197-200
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Byam atty of Peter Langford Brook prop.

Inferred to be the estate described in the Slave Registers for other years as 'North Sound and Olivers', on the basis of ownership, size and attorney.

 
T71/248 122-124
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] North Sound and Olivers  
 

William Byam atty to Peter Langford Brooke Esq. The estate is identified as North Sound and Olivers in the sworn statement

 
T71/249 36-39
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] North Sound and Olivers  
 

William Byam atty to Peter Langford Brooke Esq. The estate is identified as North Sound and Olivers in the sworn statement

 
T71/250 794-796