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Bath [Mount Edge]

Barbados | St Michael

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
- 1801 [LA] → Owner
Michael Nihell of Barbados

This is a tentative association only of the Mount Edge estate of the 1817 Slave Register with the estate of the same name left by Michael Nihell in his will made in 1796 for which administration was granted in 1801.

- 1770 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Sir William Baker Alderman of City of London

This is a tentative association only of the Mount Edge estate of the 1817 Slave Register with the estate of the same name subject to a mortgage held by Sir William Baker from 1759 on three estates owned by the Dottin family, including Mount Edge.

1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Philip Crick senior

Notes

Not named in the slave registers except in 1817 where it was called Mount Edge, but listed as Bath in the 1825 map.

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 58(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Mount Edge  
 

Return of Philip Crick, his own property.

 
T71/522 120-23
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
 

Return of Philip Crick, his own property. Changes in the enslaved since 1817: Births: 1; Brought from Dominica since last registration and bought of Richard McNally: 19, of whom 6 died; Deaths: 3; Sold to Henry Peter Simmons: 83. [See Simmons's return for the Vaucluse estate].

 
T71/526 157-60
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  
 

Return of Philip Crick, his own property. [This is virtually certainly the same person as given in 1826 as Philip Crick senior.] Previously 30 enslaved.

 
T71/529 158
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
 

Return of Philip Crick senior, his own property.

 
T71/534 119