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Whetstone

Barbados | Christ Church

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1758 [EA] - 1758 [LA] → Owner
Conrade Adams the elder

Estate Information (2)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot) 88(F) 86(M)  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 3 whites, and blacks as: men: 62; women: 63; boys: 24; girls: 25. [It is not clear why only 3 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1784
[Name] Whetstone  
 

Advertisement for the sale of the moveables, copper stills, utensils etc. on Staple Grove, Whetstone and Bannatynes on 16/08/1784 and of the 'the remainder of the negroes and cattle belonging to Hon. Conrade Adams and Conrade Adams the elder deceased' on the following day.

https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/04/75/11/00070/AA00047511_00070.txt [accessed 03/09/2021]. The file is corrupted.