UCL

Amersham's

Montserrat

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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] - 1826 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Hill of Montserrat
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
Warner Ottley

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 141 (Amershams)
£1,024 4S 2D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Thomas Hill Esquire, owner; returned by his attorney William Shiell. The 590 enslaved listed are attached to four estates that are not identified in this volume but are identified in later registers as Reeds Hill and Spring; Amersham's; Farrels and Bugbyhole; and Dubery's. For further details see the entry for Reeds Hill and Spring Estates.

 
T 71/447 240-259
1821
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Thomas Hill, owner; The 578 enslaved people given are attached to several estates including: Reeds Hill and Spring; Amersham's; Farrels and Bugbyhole; and Dubery's. For further details see the entry for Reeds Hill and Spring Estates.

 
T 71/448 246-262
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Amersham's  
 

Returned by Thomas Hill, owner; 5 estates are returned together with a total of 514 enslaved people ( 578 were returned in 1821, when the separate estate names were not given). The estates listed are Spring, Reeds Hill, Amersham's, Farrels and Dubery's.

 
T 71/449 283-85
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] Amersham  
 

Return of Warner Ottley Esquire, owner; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney; a note in pencil says that the enslaved people listed had been returned by Thomas Hill on Amersham in the 1824/5 Register.

 
T 71/450 195-197
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Warner Ottley Esquire, owner, returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney. It is not clear whether or not Ottley owned the estate as well as the enslaved people listed.

 
T 71/451 5-7
1846
[Size] 200  
 

In 1846, Thomas Howes had leased the 200 acre plantation “Amersham”, just east of Plymouth, from the estate of Warner Ottley (deceased) at £80 per year for a period of seven years.

 
“Records of Montserrat”,unpublished manuscript by T. Savage English page 206. as found on http://www.alangullette.com/lit/shiel/family/Shiell_Mary_Ann.htm [ sourced 28/10/2015]