UCL

Martins

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
1817 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
William Martin of King Street
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Rev. Richard Burgh Byam

Acting attorney

1824 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
William Martin of King Street

Notes

Almost certainly the estate shown as 'Diamond' in the compensation records.

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Rd. Burgh Byam, acting attorney in the absence of Martin William Byam, attorney of William Martin Esq. Inferred to be Martin's.

 
T71/245 350-352
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Martin W. Byam atty of William Martin Esq. Inferred to be Martin's.

 
T71/246 101-104
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Martin's  
 

James Syret atty of the executors of the late William Martin Esq.

 
T71/248 703-704
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Martin's  
 

James Syret atty of the executors of the late William Martin Esq. The estate is identified as Martin's in the affidavit.

 
T71/249 513-514
1832
[Name] None given  
 

By 1832, Francis Frye Brown had purchased 84 people late the property of William Martin. Francis Frye Brown was awarded compensation for the Diamond estate which does not appear in the Slave Registers. It appears likely that Diamond was a continuation of Martin's.

 
T71/250 98-99