UCL

North Wales

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
1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Previous owner
Rev. Robert Pemberton
1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Previous owner
Frances Jones (née Williams)

In 1806 Mrs Frances Jones was identified as the previous co-owner of an estate named Williams with 38 enslaved people that appears to have been combined in subsequent Slave Registers with the North Wales estate.

1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Not known
Butler Claxton III of Nevis
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Butler Thompson Claxton
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Robert Claxton
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Philip Protheroe the younger
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
John Savage

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 9 (North Wales)
£63 16S 5D

Estate Information (6)

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1806
[Name] North Wales  
 

Indentures of 26 and 27/12/1806 between Butler Claxton [III] of Nevis son and heir of Butler Claxton [II] showed the mortgage by Butler Claxton III of North Wales estate (identified as the property of Butler Claxton II and heretofore of the Rev. Robert Pemberton) and Williams estates (identified as the property of Mrs Elizabeth Pemberton formerly Williams late wife of Robert Pemberton, and Mrs Frances Jones, widow) to Protheroes and Claxton of Bristol, together with the 48 and 38 enslaved people attached to the respective estates, to secure the £5151 owed by Butler Claxton II to Protheroes and Claxton together with 'a considerable sum' owed by Butler Claxton & Son.

Caribbeana Vol. VI p. 41 and 42

 
Caribbeana Vol. VI p. 41 and 42
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 64(F) 61(M)  
[Name] North Wales  
 

Return of Butler Claxton, owner

 
T71/364 165-167
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 64(F) 62(M)  
[Name] North Wales  
 

Return of Butler Claxton, owner

 
T71/365 175-176
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 55(F) 59(M)  
[Name] North Wales  
 

Return of Messrs Protheroe and Savage trustees of B T Claxton Esq., owner; returned by Robert Claxton

 
T71/366 147-148
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 58(F) 61(M)  
[Name] North Wales  
 

Return of Messrs Protheroe and Savage, trustees of B T Claxton Esq., owner; returned by Robert Claxton

 
T71/367 130-132
1831
[Name] North Wales  
 

Return of Messrs Protheroe and Savage, trustees of B T Claxton, owner; returned by Robert Claxton. The entry shows that all 121 enslaved people attached to the estate were sold: to Edward Huggins (116), James Dore and Powell (2), Mrs Herbert (1), Robert Claxton (1), and P P Claxton (1)

 
T71/368 163-167