UCL

Hard Times

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
Magnus Morton Herbert
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Attorney
George Bucke
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Joseph Esdaile
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Administrator
Philip Lyne
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
John Blackburn

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 94 (Hard Times)
£2,551 15S 2D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of Magnus Morton, owner

 
T71/364 115-117
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of Magnus Morton Esq., owner

 
T71/365 90-91
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of Magnus Morton Esq., owner

 
T71/366 77-78
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of Magnus Morton Herbert, owner; returned by George Bucke as attorney

 
T71/367 79-81
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 64(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of Magnus Morton Herbert Esq., owner; returned by George Bucke

 
T71/368 85
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Hard Times  
 

Return of John Joseph Esdaile, owner; the majority of those on the increase list were acquired 'by purchase from the administration of the late John Blackburn by order of the High Court of Chancery"; 11 enslaved people on the increase list were " from the Dasents Registry" ; this entry is followed by a return, pp 139-143, concerning the same enslaved people; it was returned by John J. Esdaile as attorney to Philip Lyne, the administrator and representative of the late John Blackburn; 146 of enslaved people listed were received from the Honorable Magnus Morton Herbert; 17 of those listed were "transferred from the Registry of Dasents Estate to the Hard Times List when that return was given up by Mr Morton Herbert to the administrator of the late John Blackburn"

 
T71/369 134-143