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Hyndford

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Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1800 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Charles John Warner of the island of Bequia
1800 [SY] - → Annuitant
William Webb
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
Robert Lauder
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Abram Atkins
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Alderman John Atkins

Notes

An estate identified in deeds of 1799 and 1800 under which Robert Lauder had mortgaged land and 89 enslaved people to J & A Atkins subject to a mortgage of £6000 held by Charles John Warner and an annuity of £420 p.a. to William Webb. The estate has not been traced further but some of the names of enslaved people given in the 1799 and 1800 deeds appear in the Slave Register entry in 1817 for Langley Park.

Estate Information (1)

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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Hyndford  
 

By deeds of lease and release of 01/09/1799 and 02/09/1799, Robert Lauder mortgaged his two lots of land [given later in the series of deeds as comprising the plantation Hyndford] and 89 named enslaved people to John and Abram Atkins of the City of London, to secure the repayment by him of bills of exchange for £1800 that John and Abram Atkins had agreed to accept to enable Lauder to buy plantation supplies, subject to a pre-existing mortgage for £6000 to Charles John Warner and an agreement by Robert Lauder to sell an annuity of £420 p.a. for £2940 to William Webb of London. A later deed of 01/01/1800 confirmed this annuity to Webb.

 
Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 pp. 101-121 and 122 et seq.