UCL

Reeds Hill & Spring Estate

Montserrat

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
- 1826 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Hill of Montserrat
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Elizabeth Hill

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 182 (Reeds Hill & Spring Estate)
£3,442 12S 8D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 590(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Thomas Hill Esquire, owner; returned by his attorney William Shiell; notes that one absent enslaved person - 'a black man named Toby' - is not included in the total given because he was 'in England with his Master'. The 590 enslaved listed are attached to four estates that are not identified in this volume but are identified in later registers as Reeds Hill and Spring; Amersham's; Farrels and Bugbyhole; and Dubery's.

 
T 71/447 240-259
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 578(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Thomas Hill, owner; The 578 enslaved people given are attached to several unnamed estates which have been identified in later returns as being Reeds Hill and Spring; Amersham's; Farrels and Bugbyhole; and Dubery's. This return shows that Toby, aged 33, has 'returned from England'.

 
T 71/448 246-262
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] Reeds Hill and Spring  
 

Returned by Thomas Hill, owner; 5 estates are returned together with a total of 514 enslaved people ( 578 were returned in 1821, when the separate estate names were not given). The estates listed are Spring, Reeds Hill, Amersham's, Farrels and Dubery's. 91 enslaved people were attached to Reeds Hill while 115 people were attached to Spring.

 
T 71/449 278-283
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Spring and Reeds Hill  
 

Return of Thomas Hill, deceased, owner; Returned by Thomas Henry Percy and Robert Dobridge attorneys to Kensington and Paine, mortgagees. Spring and Reeds Hill Estates are returned together with a total of 210 enslaved people (207 on the previous return); 94 enslaved people were attached to Reeds Hill while 116 people were attached to Spring.

 
T 71/450 161-167
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Reeds Hill and Spring  
 

Return of Mrs. Elizabeth Hill, owner, returned by William Shiell, attorney. Concerns the 'mortgaged estates of the late Thomas Hill, deceased, called Reeds Hill and Spring' which are returned together with a total of 225 enslaved people (210 on the previous return); 104 enslaved people were attached to Reeds Hill, while 121 people were attached to Spring.

 
T 71/451 90-95