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Windmill

Nevis | St Thomas Lowland

Estate Details

Associated People (12)

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
1775 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
Charles Best
1769 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner
John Williams the younger MP

In 1769, John Williams the younger reportedly purchased the Windmill and Paradise estate (also known as Colhouns) to add to Morton's Bay, which had been settled on him and his wife earlier that same year, under the term of his marriage settlement of 1766.

1775 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Stephen Sayre
1775 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Bartholomew Coote Purdon
1800 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
William McDowall Colhoun
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Other
Peter Butler
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
William Bowrin
1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Peter Butler
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Other
William McPhail
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Job Ede
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
Robert Claxton
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Walter Lewis Bucke

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 129 (Colhoun's Estate or Windmill)
£2,416 18S 9D

Notes

Details of the history of this estate in the 18th century are given in David Small and Christine Eickelmann's 'Clifton Estate, Nevis: an Account of Absence and Ambition' http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/cliftonhistory.pdf [accessed 29/11/2017].

Estate Information (8)

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1769
[Name] Windmill and Paradise otherwise Colhoun's  
 

Reportedly purchased by John Williams the younger in 1769.

 
David Small and Christine Eickelmann's 'Clifton Estate, Nevis: an Account of Absence and Ambition' http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/cliftonhistory.pdf [accessed 29/11/2017],
1775
[Name] Windmill  
 

An indenture of 01/12/1775 between Stephen Sayre and Bartholomew Coote Purdon and Charles Best rehearsed an earlier indenture of 24 and 25/03/1775 by which John Williams the younger had mortgaged the Mortons Bay estate on Nevis and 110 named enslaved people to Sayre and Purdon together with other estates named as Windmill, Basseterre Lowland, Paradice [sic], and Dumblesdale to secure his debt to them of £15,335 17s 10d, and appointed them as consignees for the sugar from the estates. Under the new indenture, the security was assigned by Sayre and Purdon to Charles Best, to whom they were bound by for £14,000 as security for the £7000 they owed him, and Purdon also assigned lands in Ireland to secure a further £3000 he lent in order for Sayre and Purdon to repay separate debts to John Reynolds. Common Records 1776-1777, British Library, EAP794/1/1/16, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-16 pp. 1-21

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 76(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Windmill  
 

Return of William Bowrin, owner; returned by Peter Butler

 
T71/364 26-28
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot) 72(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Windmill  
 

Return of William Bowrin Esq., owner; returned by Peter Butler

 
T71/365 266-267
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot) 66(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Wind Mill  
 

Return of Peter Butler Esq., owner; returned by William Mc Phail [McPhail]

 
T71/366 201
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Windmill  
 

Return of Job Ede, owner; returned by Robert Claxton;135 enslaved people were acquired "by purchase from Peter Butler as by his return for said Estate [which] will show sex, country and reputed age"; this return is directly followed by that of Peter Butler which lists the people sold to Job Ede

 
T71/367 190-198
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot) 68(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Wind Mill  
 

Return of Job Ede, owner

 
T71/368 242
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot) 67(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Wind Mill  
 

Return of Job Ede, owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/369 237