UCL

Belmont (possibly formerly Wanseys)

Nevis

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
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Seller
John Halliday of Antigua
1774 [EA] - → Owner
Edward Parris of Nevis
1776 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
John Halliday of Antigua
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Laurence

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 131 (Belmont)
£1,266 10S 1D

Notes

The relationship between Belmont and Wanseys has not been fully unravelled by LBS. William Laurence had owned Wanseys, and sold it to John Henry Clarke the father and his wife in 1812, who owned the adjoining Clarke's estate, for £18,000, with Laurence taking back a mortgage for the purchase price. Lawrence appears to have foreclosed in 1823 and taken renewed ownership of 69 enslaved people and the estate, then called Belmont.

Sources

The Mountravers Plantation Community part 2 Chapter 7, https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/mountravers~part2chapter7.pdf

Estate Information (5)

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1776
[Name] Wanseys  
 

An indenture of 04/05/1776 between John Halliday of Antigua, Edward Parris of Nevis and Thomas Warner and Bertie Entwisle recapitulated Articles of Agreement between Halliday and Parris dated 15/08/1774 for the sale by Halliday of the estate know as Wanseys to Parris for £8000. To secure the payments of the purchase price (in instalments of £2000 and the 4 of £1500), Halliday took a mortgage over both the Wanseys property and Parris' Black Rock estate. Halliday had assumed ownership after the failure of William Wansey of Bristol in the 1760s.

Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 191-206.

1825
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Return of William Laurence, owner; There is an N.B. "The above named Estate called Belmont and the slaves thereunto belonging was under mortgage by the late John Henry Clarke for securing the payment of the purchase money to the said William Laurence, and since the death of the said John Henry Clarke his son John Henry Clarke, Heir at law to his father, has in conformity to a deed of agreement entered into by him to the said William Laurence, and dated the 25th April 1823 delivered on the 28th of the same month full and quit possession of the said Estate and sixty nine slaves thereunto belonging whose names are hereinto mentioned".

 
T71/366 17
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Return of William Laurence, owner

 
T71/367 14-15
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot) 35(F) 37(M)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Return of William Laurence, owner

 
T71/368 30-31
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont  
 

Return of William Laurence Sr., owner; returned by William Laurence

 
T71/369 80-81