Marble Hill

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
- 1822 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
- 1822 [EY] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman

In 1829, Rev. George Nibbs sought to barr and defeat the estates tail and remainders created by the will of James Nibbs of Upton House, and conveyed his interest in Marble Hill to John Teesdale.

1787 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
1764 [SY] - 1774 [EY] → Mortgage Holder

LBS has tentatively inferred that the estate described as Dickinson's Bay Plantation belonging to Samuel Nibbs in 1760 which was mortgaged to John Banister in 1764 and then redeemed by James Nibbs from Banister's heirs in 1787 became part of Marble Hill.

1774 [SY] - 1787 [EY] → Mortgage Holder

LBS has tentatively inferred that the estate described as Dickinson's Bay Plantation belonging to Samuel Nibbs in 1760 which was mortgaged to John Banister in 1764 and then redeemed by James Nibbs from Banister's heirs in 1787 became part of Marble Hill.

1787 [EA] - 1822 [EY] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,482 16S 2D

Estate Information (6)

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1787
[Name] Marble Hill  
 

Indenture made 27/07/1787 between James Nibbs of Antigua and Sarah Willett Ottley of Testwood under which James Nibbs granted Marble Hill to Sarrah Willett Ottley as security for an advance of £5500; William Manning the elder, William Manning the younger and Benjamin Vaughan stood as further security for £8000, void if James Nibbs repaid the loan with interest at 5% on 7th September 1793, Close Roll 27 Geo. III Part 10 Nos. 2 and 3.

 
Oliver, 'History of Antigua' Vol. II part ii pp. 295-296
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Peter Murray attorney to James Nibbs the proprietor. Inferred to be Marble Hill.

 
T71/245 501-506
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Peter Murray attorney to James Nibbs the proprietor 'in the division of Dickinson's Bay'. Inferred to be Marble Hill.

 
T71/246 458-463
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Marble Hill  
 

Bertie Entwisle Jarvis Esq. proprietor under the will of James Nibbs Esq. Marble Hill estate

 
T71/248 407-411
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Marble Hill  
 

Bertie Enwisle Jarvis proprietor Marble Hill

 
T71/249 408-412
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Marble Hill  
 

Bertie Enwisle Jarvis proprietor Marble Hill

 
T71/250 379-383