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Associated People (4)

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
- 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
William Maynard Payne
- 1823 [LA] → Owner
Rev. William M. Payne
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other
Mary Ann Payne (née Clarke)
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executor
Eyare King

Notes

See also the Cambridge plantation, 1829 evolution for the sale in Chancery of property and enslaved formerly owned by Payne.

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot) 59(F) 44(M)  
 

Return of the Rev. William M. Payne, his own property.

 
T71/522 344-46
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
 

Return of the Rev William M. Payne, his own property. Previously 139 enslaved.

 
T71/530 455-56
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
 

Return of Eyare King, Executor, the property of the Estate of William M. Payne, deceased. Previously 147 enslaved.
Note that 18 of the enslaved reverted to Richard F. [Forster] Clarke and 32 reverted to Mary Payne.

 
T71/537 208-10
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] Ports  
[Size] 300  
 

Chancery Court sale: William Gill, one of the Masters-in-Chancery, sold to John Bovell for £15,710, the plantation called 'Ports' of William Maynard Payne, son of the Rev. William Maynard Payne. Land and building appraised at £9,378, enslaved at £5,636.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.