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Spooners Nichola Town

St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Owner
Charles Spooner

Shown as owner in 1817 but known to have died in 1790.

1822 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Peter Theodore Shaw
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
Frederick Manning
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
John Lavicount Anderdon
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
William Manning
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Manning
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Lavicount Anderdon
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Frederick Manning

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 724 (Spooners)
£2,422 14S 5D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town  
 

Return of Charles Spooner, owner; returned by William Jordon, manager; estate named as Nichola Town in the index.

 
T 71/253 300-303
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town  
 

Return of Peter T Shaw Esq, owner; returned by William Jordon, manager.

 
T 71/255 107-108
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Spooner Nichola Town  
 

Return of Peter T Shaw, owner; returned by William Jordon, manager.

 
T 71/257 368-369
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Spooners NT  
 

Returned by Sam R Thomas, manager of the Nichola Town estate of P T Shaw Esq, owner. Christ Church, Nichola Town

 
T 71/258 116-117
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 399  
[Crop] sugar and others  
 

Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 399 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 111 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Charles Spooner deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town Estate  
 

Return of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, lessees of the estate of Peter T Shaw Esq, owner; returned by Charles Adamson, attorney the previous return on page 99 concerns this same estate.

 
T 71/259 99-103
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] Spooner Nichola Town Estate  
 

Return of Peter T Shaw Esq, owner; returned by John Swindell, attorney; 138 enslaved people were received with the estate on 16 April 1828.

 
T 71/259 99
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town Estate (Spooners)  
 

Return of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, owner; returned by Adam Stevens, attorney. Spooners

 
T 71/260 102 to 103