UCL

Smith's, St Mary

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
- 1772 [EY] → Not known
Mary Smith of Bulstrode Street Marylebone

Mary Smith conveyed the estate, apparently entailed, to Richard Oliver in 1772. She and her sister Sarah refer in their wills (proved 1807 and 1810 respectively) to her 'New Division' estate, which might be this one.

1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Richard Wesston Nanton

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 377 (Smith's, St Mary)
£1,084 19S 8D

Estate Information (6)

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1772
[Name] Smith's  
[Size] 122  
 

Close Roll 12 Geo III Part 2 No. 13. By an Indenture made 07/04/1772, Mary Smith of Golden Square spinster conveyed to Richard Oliver Alderman of London that plantation in the parish of St Mary's containing 122 acres, called Smith's, 'for docking and barring all estate tail or remainders in the plantations, lands, etc. and negros or slaves hereinafter mentioned, and for conveying the same to and for such uses.'

 
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. III pp. 94 & 97
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] Smith's  
 

Richard Lovely Nanton registered 33 enslaved people as lessee of Smith's estate belonging to the heirs of Mary Smith, and 31 other enslaved people as owner and in right of his mother and daughter.

 
T71/244 229-230
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard L. Nanton prop. Inferred to be Smith's.

 
T71/247 202-203
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard L. Nanton prop.

 
T71/248 527-528
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard Wesston Nanton prop.

 
T71/249 558-559
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard Wesston Nanton prop.

 
T71/250 507-508