UCL

Lynch's

St Kitts | St John Capesterre

Estate Details

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
- 1788 [EY] → Owner
John French Lynch

Inferred to be the unnamed estate transmitted under the will of John French Lynch proved in 1788.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
John French Lynch

Shown as owner but probably referring to his trust will of 1788

1788 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
Andrew Lynch French

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 709
£1,678 6S 9D
Tentative association only, inferred from the commonalty of Andrew Lynch French in the Slave Registers and Andrew Lynch French in the compensation claim. The numbers of enslaved people do not fully tie up.

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John French Lynch, owner; Alexander Spence, manager.

 
T 71/253 394-396
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Lynch's  
 

Return of Andrew Lynch French, owner.

 
T 71/255 47
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] Lynch's  
 

Return of Andrew Lynch French, owner; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

 
T 71/256 171
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 184  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 184 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 124 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Lynch French.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Lynch's  
 

Return of Edward A French, manager and attorney for Andrew Lynch French, owner.

 
T 71/258 52
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Lynch's  
 

Return of Andrew Lynch French , owner.

 
T 71/259 61
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Lynch's Estate  
 

Return of Andrew Lynch French, owner.

 
T 71/260 59