Emsall (?)

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
1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,717 1S 9D

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 56(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Emsall Estate  
 

Return of Benjamin Lucas, owner; returned by James Corlet, attorney. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/338 112-115
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot) 60(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Emsall  
 

Returned by James Corlet, attorney of Benjamin Lucas, owner; 93 enslaved people were 'sold to W W Glanville with the estate and delivered [on] the15th September 1819'; 2 enslaved people were transferred to Benjamin Lucas and 1 person was transferred to Mary Lucas. St George.

 
T71/349 102 - 105
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 73(F) 53(M)  
[Name] Emsall  
 

Returned by W W Glanville, owner; 93 enslaved people were purchased from Benjamin Lucas with Emsall Estate and took possession on 13 September 1819; 20 people were purchased from Bon Repose Estate in the parish of St. Patrick; 4 were previously registered by him in Roseau; 2 were purchased from Miss Minny and one was purchased from Esther Marie. St George.

 
T71/349 108 - 111
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot) 56(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Emsall Estate  
 

Return of James Corlet, owner; the entry is recorded by the owner's surname with the enslaved being 'attached to Emsall Estate'. 91 of the enslaved listed in the increase section were 'Purchased from W.W. Glanville Esq.' with the remaining two people being 'purchased from John Blackburn'. St. George.

 
T71/358 60 - 61
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 70(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Emsall Estate  
 

Return of W W Glanville, owner. The entry is recorded by the owner's surname with the enslaved said to be 'attached to Emsall Estate'. 90 enslaved were sold to James Corlet Esq. as attached to Emsall Estate; 17 enslaved people were 'delivered to John Bailee and by him sold to John Appleton; one person was sold to [no first name given] Bellott; and one person was sold to B Blanc. St. George.

 
T71/358 70 - 73
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 52(F) 38(M)  
 

Returned by James Corlet, owner. St. George.

 
T71/359 73
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot) 50(F) 38(M)  
[Name] Emsall  
 

Returned by James Corlet, owner; the 88 enslaved people 'were sold in March 1827 by a decree of the Court of Chancery, and purchased by B A Watson with the estate'. St. George.

 
T71/361 98
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot) 50(F) 44(M)  
 

Returned by Benjamin Airey Watson, owner; the majority of the enslaved listed were 'purchase under a decree of the Court of Chancery, late the property of James Corlet on Emsall Estate'; the includes a full return of the enslaved. St. George.

 
T71/361 193-196
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 49(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Emsall Estate  
 

Return of B.A. Watson, deceased owner; returned by Jas. Corlet, executor. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/363 85