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Hope

St Vincent

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
1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Buyer
Edward Jackson of Palmiste Park
1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
John Cropper

John Cropper as trustee and executor of Peter Haffey sold the estate to Edward Jackson for £12,500 in 1799. Cropper was a co-residuary legatee of Peter Haffey, as to 2/9ths of his residual estate.

1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Previous owner
Peter Haffey

Notes

In 1799 John Cropper as trustee and executor of Peter Haffey sold an estate named Hope in St Patrick St Vincent to Edward Jackson for £12,500, of which £3000 was paid in cash and the remainder secured on the estate. Deed Book 1799, British Library, EAP688/1/1/10, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-10 pp. 295 et seq.

Estate Information (1)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 63(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Hope  
[Size] 130  
[Crop] Sugar, rum, cotton, ginger, pimento, coffee  
 

An estate named Hope in St Patrick St Vincent was sold in 1799 to Edward Jackson by John Cropper as trustee and executor of Peter Haffey for £12,500. The indenture includes 137 named enslaved people, 74 male and 63 female.

 
Deed Book 1799, British Library, EAP688/1/1/10, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-10 pp. 295-306