Mount Nesbitt

[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 126  
[Crop] sugar  

In 1763, the estate was 126 acres, of which 85 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as the heirs of Gautier.

'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e

[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt  
[Size] 479  
[Crop] sugar, pasture, provisions, cattle, mules  
[Stock] 88  

Mount Nesbitt was valued on 13/07/1772 by James Taylor, Samuel Cary and Samuel Sandbatch with a total value of £65,707 10s 0d:

200 acres of sugar cane - £20,000;

114 acres in pasture and provision grounds - £9,120;

32 acres in brush and small woods - £1,625;

132 acres in standing woods - £4,372 10s;

A new set of sugar works at the sea side consisting of boiling house, distill house, a cattle mill new and complete, two mills, worms and worm tubs, 9 iron boilers mounted, coolers, liquor vats and sundry utensils - £5,000;

A set of old buildings consisting of boiling house, curing house, mill house, distill house, trash houses, coopers shop, stable, kitchen, hospital, a new water mill, two mills and their apparatus, 4 boilers mounted, "about 60 Negro Houses", a large dwelling house, all of hard wood, valued together - £7,000;

218 "Negroes of different ages & sexes averidging one with the other" - £16,350;

44 mules - £1760;

44 head horn cattle - £440;

2 sadle horses, one very old - £40;

See http://beinecke.hamilton.edu/islandora/object/hamBeiMss%3A4140?solr_nav[id]=6ea0b1b201ac7ca82354&solr_nav[page]=0&solr_nav[offset]=19#page/1/mode/1up [accessed 16/11/2016] for original document.

'A Valuation of the Estate Called Mount Nesbitt, in Grenada, with all the Buildings, Slaves & Stock thereunto Belonging as under'

[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 403  
[Crop] sugar  

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 403 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. Proprietor given as Arnold Nesbit, Esq.

'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e

[Name] Mt Nesbit  

To be sold pursuant to...the Commission of bankruptcy on Sir George Colebrooke bart, banker, an undivided one-third of Mt Nesbit on Grenada together with the third part of the Negroes, stock, cattle belonging thereto; also a moiety of the sum of £12,600 secured on one other third part of the same estate, and two other debts of £731 1s 11d and £6000 payable from estates on Antigua.

London Gazette 12274 26/02/1782 p. 3

[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of William Mitchell, proprietor, in the parish of St John, and worked upon Mount Nesbitt Estate.

T71/265 304-305

[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of William Mitchell as agent.

T71/265 305-307

[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot) 69(F) 66(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbit Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of William Mitchell as Agent.

T71/274 59

[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 62(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Misses Charlotte and Augusta Lushington as Proprietors.

T71/285 47-48

[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot) 65(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

Belonging to Misses Charlotte and Augusta Lushington as proprietors and in the lawful possession of William Cockburn their attorney.

T71/299 56

[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 60(F) 66(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of William Cockburn as Attorney of Misses Charlotte and Augusta Lushington, Proprietors

T71/311 130-131

[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 60(F) 66(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt  

Belonging to Mount Nesbitt estate in St John and in possession of Thomas Browne as attorney of Misses Charlotte and Augusta Lushington.

T71/313 58-59

[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 60(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Mount Nesbitt Estate  

In possession of Thomas Browne, attorney of Misses Charlotte and Augusta Lushington.

T71/317 146-147