UCL

Cades Bay

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1791 [EY] → Owner
Robert Harvey

In his will proved in 1791, Robert Harvey left 'all my plantation formerly called Mr Yeomans Old Road Estate in Cades Bay in Old Road, Antigua' to his nephew Robert Farquhar. This appears to be the estate later known as Cades Bay.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Robert Farquhar
1817 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Other
Sir George Douglas Bart.

In 1817, Robert Farquhar was shown as the owner of 166 enslaved people and the lessee of a further 219 enslaved people from Sir George Douglas bart.; by 1821, he had purchased the enslaved people from Sir George Douglas bart. These entries have been inferred to relate to the estate appearing in the compensation records as 'Cades Bay.' Sir George Douglas is reported by Vere Langford Oliver to have inherited 'the Antiguan estate of Mrs McNamara.' Mrs McNamara was his father's cousin, and the daughter of Henry Douglas of Antigua: one of her estates was called Ravenscroft in 1758-1763.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 284 (Cades Bay)
£5,498 14S 3D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Robert Briggs attorney to Robert Farquhar Esq. Robert Briggs as attorney to Robert Farquhar lessee of Sir George Douglas bart. prop. also registered separately a further 219 enslaved people [pp. 651-655].

 
T71/247 166
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 391(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Robert Briggs attorney to Robert Farquhar. Inferred to be Cades Bay from the compensation award. This was an increase of 253 people over the prior registration, of whom almost all (other than 9 births) had been purchased from Sir George Douglas.

 
T71/246 77-87
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 398(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Robert Briggs atty to R. Farquhar prop. Inferred to be Cades Bay.

 
T71/248 74-82
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 399(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Robert Briggs atty to Robert Farquhar. Inferred to be Cades Bay.

 
T71/249 248-255
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 410(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Robert Briggs atty to Robert Farquhar prop. Inferred to be Cades Bay.

 
T71/250 236-244