UCL

Zetland

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
1768 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Rev. Richard Neate

LBS has inferred the connection between (1) the unnamed estate of Patrick O'Flaherty with which Rev. Richard Neate was associated in 1768 and 1769 and 1774 and (2) the Zetland estate for which his descendants were awarded compensation in the 1830s to have been a mortgage held by Rev. Richard Neate on the estate.

1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Previous owner
Patrick O'Flaherty

LBS has inferred O'Flaherty's unnamed estate in deeds of 1768, 1769 and 1774 to have been Zetland.

1774 [EA] - 1794 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
William Norris of Bedford Row and Bromham, Wiltshire
1792 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Sholto Archbald or Archibald
1792 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Previous owner
William Johnson of Nevis
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
George Latham
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Edward Thomas Wolfe

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 37 (Zetland)
£1,225 10S 10D

Estate Information (8)

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1774
[Name] Not given, but inferred to be Zetland  
[Size] 250  
 

Vere Langford Oliver gave a barely intelligible summary of a 'Deed of 03/01/1774 between William Norris of Bedford Row and Wm Johnson of Nevis by which Norris sold for 5s the estate late of Pat. O'Flaherty in the parishes of Fig Tree and Gingerland containing 250 acres with buildings, negroes, cattle and stock as comprised in Mortgages of 9 and 10 October 1764 between Pat. O'Flaherty and Chas. Pearce and of 29 and 30 April 1768 between Chas. Pearce and Pat. and Thady O'Flaherty of the second part, Wm Norris of the third part and Richard Neat [sic] and Archibald Thompson of the fourth part and which was conveyed to Wm Norris for securing £4600 and £1400 and interest to Wm Johnson for one year.'

Caribbeana Vol. II p. 239.

Patrick O'Flaherty (q.v.) is known to have owned an estate named Zetland on Nevis.

1786
[Name] None given  
 

In the will of William Norris of Bedford Row and Bromham Wiltshire made in 1786 with 5 codicils including one of 1792, he bequeathed the mortgage he held over the estate and enslaved people of William Johnson to his children.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 51(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Shetland  
 

Return of Sholto Archbald, owner

 
T71/364 134-135
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Shetland  
 

Return of Messrs George Latham and Co. of the City of London as mortgagees; returned by Peter Thomas Huggins as their attorney; the estate formerly belonged Sholto Archbald.

 
T71/365 228-229
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] Shetland or Zetland  
 

Return of Edward Thomas Wolfe, owner; returned by Edward Wolfe; the estate formerly belonged to Sholto Archbald

 
T71/366 177-78
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Zetland (Shetland)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas Wolfe, owner

 
T71/367 203-204
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot) 55(F) 32(M)  
[Name] Zetlands  
 

Return of Edward Thomas Wolfe, owner; also in this volume, and attributed to this estate, is a separate entry for Mrs Jane Wolfe and children (18), owners, in the lawful possession of Edward Thomas Wolfe (p 245)

 
T71/368 251
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 51(F) 33(M)  
[Name] Zetland (Shetland)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas Wolfe, owner of 84 of the enslaved people listed; preceding the entry made for Zetland, and attributed to the estate, is a separate entry for Mrs Wolfe and children, owners of 18 enslaved people; returned by Edward Thomas Wolfe.

 
T71/369 244-246