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Rockless / Speights Town

Barbados | St Peter

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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] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
Benjamin B. Hinds
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
William Hinds
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
John Abel Jackman

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot) 15(F) 21(M)  
 

Return of William Hinds, Executor, the property of the Estate of Benjamin B. Hinds, deceased.

 
T71/522 453
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Rockless  
 

Return of William Hinds, Executor, the property of the Estate of Benjamin B. Hinds, deceased.

 
T71/526 563
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Abel Jackman, his own property. No previous return. 38 of the enslaved inherited by the last will and testament of Benj. B. Hinds, deceased. There were also 3 births and 3 deaths.

 
T71/532 21-22
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
 

Return of John A. Jackman, his own property. Previously 38 enslaved. Changes:
Births: 7; brought of marriage with Elizabeth Hinds: 2; given up by Samuel Jackman: 16; purchased at Marshall's Sale, late the property of Samuel Jackman: 9; sold to Joseph Wilding: 2; deaths: 7.

 
T71/538 262-3
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot)  
[Name] Speights Town  
 

Return of Joseph L. Briggs, Attorney, the property of John A. Jackman. All 14 (including 1 purchased from Ann Hinds) were removed from Rockless plantation. It is not clear what happened to the others from the Rockless plantation. No subsequent reference to Rockless has been found.

 
T71/542 301
1913
[Name] Rockless  
[Size] 54  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Emtage.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.