UCL

Unknown (placed on Belmont by the lessee)

St Kitts

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Benjamin Brown Davis Esq.

Owner of a large group of apparently unattached enslaved people and lessee of Belmont estate on St Kitts where he had placed them.

1825 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Administratrix
Frances Davis (née Darnell)
1825 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Administrator
William Darnell Davis
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Steuart Spencer Davis

Steuart Spencer Davis made the returns in 1831 and 1834 which showed his mother and brother as administratrix and administrator and then as joint owners.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Frances Davis (née Darnell)
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Darnell Davis

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 702
£1,061 8S 8D
The enslaved people under this claim had been placed on Belmont estate, of which the Davis family were lessees.

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
 

Return of Benjamin B Davis, owner; is not listed as an agricultural estate the index, but includes field workers.

 
T 71/253 066-068
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
 

Return of Benjamin Davis, owner; returned by Davis as the lessee of Belmont. Of the 86 enslaved people, 22 were attached to the estate, while the other 64 were the property of Benjamin Davis, the lessee of the estate.

 
T 71/255 30
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
 

Return of Benjamin Brown Davis Esq, deceased owner; returned by Frances Davis and William Darnell Davis, administratrix and administrator. Of the 92 enslaved people, 25 were attached to the estate while 67 were the property of Benjamin Davis, the lessee of the estate.

 
T 71/256 107
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
 

Return of Frances Davis and William Darnell Davis, administratrix and administrator with the will annexed of Benjamin Brown Davis Esq deceased owner.

 
T 71/258 194
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
 

Return of Frances Davis and William Darnell Davis, administratrix and administrator of Benjamin Brown Davis Esquire deceased owner; returned by Steuart S Davis.

 
T 71/259 46
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot)  
 

Return of Frances Davis, William Darnell Davis, and Benjamin Brown Davis, joint owners; returned by Stuart Spencer Davis; 19 of the 76 enslaved people listed were in possession by lease from the Hon William Middleton Noel and William Leake Esquires as trustees for Sir Gerrard N Noel Bart

 
T 71/260 45