UCL

Eden [formerly Brownes]

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1804 [EY] → Joint owner
Innes James Browne
- 1774 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
James Browne of Acton

James Browne broke the entail in 1774

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Ann Hutton formerly Browne, previously Nisbet
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
John Huggins junior
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Edward Huggins junior
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
Peter Thomas Huggins

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 99A (Eden)
£3,161 5S 9D

Notes

This estate appears to have been rechristened from Brownes to Eden around the time of its sale by Anne Hutton (formerly Browne, nee Nisbet) to Edward Huggins. It still appears as Eden Browne in some sources. It features as background in the effort by Christine Eickelmann and David Small to untangle the history of a duel in 1822 between two men from the Maynard and Huggins' families, David Small and Christine Eickelmann 'A Nevis ‘Legend’ Revisited: the Huggins-Maynard Duel of 1822' (2004 and 2012), https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/hugginsmaynardduel.doc[1].pdf [accessed 15/08/2019].

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot) 84(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of Anne Hutton, owner

 
T71/364 78-80
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of John Huggins Jr., owner; "formerly belonging to and in the lawful possession of Mrs. Ann Hutton now of John Huggins Jr."

 
T71/365 70-71
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of Edward Huggins, owner, formerly of John Huggins Jr; no total is given of the number of enslaved people on the estate

 
T71/366 57
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of Edward Huggins, owner; returned by Peter Thomas Huggins

 
T71/367 50-52
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot) 88(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of Edward Huggins, owner; included are 9 enslaved people "of the late Edward Huggins and transferred to the Eden Estate of Edward Huggins", the estates which they came from were New River (6) and Golden Rock (3).

 
T71/368 60-61
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Eden  
 

Return of Edward Huggins, owner

 
T71/369 122