UCL

Morris Looby's

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1789 [EY] → Owner
Valentine Morris II

Although Valentine Morris was shown as having sold Morris's to John Brooke and/or Brooke's son-in-law by 1777 (when John Brooke assigned the estate to Christopher Baldwin to secure loans from Baldwin), the estate appears to have reverted to Morris, since his legatee Charles Ravenscroft was involved in a law suit into which the slave-compensation for Morris Looby's was later paid.

1789 [SY] - 1840 [EY] → Legatee
Charles Ravenscroft
Not known
James Ballmer

Assignees of the deceased (and bankrupt) London merchant James Ballmer were shown against the estate in the Slave Registers of 1821-1832 for Morris Looby's.

1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Christopher Baldwin

Possibly mortgagee-in-possession. The estate was shown as Morris's, lately purchased of Valentine Morris.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 1031 (Morris Looby's)
£2,918 2S 9D

Estate Information (6)

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1727
[Name] Looby's  
 

Vere Langford Oliver shows Baptist Looby conveying his estate of 152 1/2 acres of his own and 70 acres supposed to be intailed to his son to Valentine Morris by indenture of 06/12/1727.

 
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol II 'Pedigree of Looby' pp. 193-194
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Loobys  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby Receiver under the orders of the court of chancery of Antigua. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described himself as 'Receiver ...for the estate of Valentine Morris deceased called Looby's.'

 
T71/245 197-202
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Rogers atty to the assignees of James Ballmer deceased and of the heirs of Valentine Morris deceased.

 
T71/246 605-609
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Looby's  
 

Thomas Rogers attorney to the assignees of James Balmer decd. In his sworn statement Rogers identified the estate as Looby's.

 
T71/248 640-643
1828
[Name] Looby's  
 

William Byam atty to the assignees of James Ballmer decd. The sworn statement identifies the enslaved people as on the estate of Valentine Morris decd. called Looby's.

 
T71/249 64-67
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Morris Looby's  
 

William Byam atty to the assignees of James Ballmer decd. The sworn statement identifies the enslaved people as on the estate of Valentine Morris decd. commonly called Morris Looby's.

 
T71/250 72-75