UCL

New Castle ('or Low Ground')

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (9)

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
- 1797 [EY] → Owner
Walter Nisbet
- 1784 [LA] → Owner
James Russell Madan
1792 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Sir Cornelius Cuyler
1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
James Daniell
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
E Stather
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
Thomas Mann
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
John Daniell
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Archibald Paull
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
George Edwards

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 109 (New Castle)
£976 2S 3D

Estate Information (7)

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Under indentures of 01/06/1792 and 02/06/1792, Walter Nisbet mortgaged for £6250 to Cornelius Cuyler, a Brigadier General in the British Army, estates on Nevis described as Mount Pleasant or the Mountain (600 acres, of which part was late the estate of Dr Henry Jones, Richard Griffin, Henry Griffin, James Griffin, James Russell Maddan, and William and James Pemberton), Low Ground or New Castle (150 acres, given as 350 acres in the second deed) and Keds [sic] Bay in St Thomas parish (250 acres), together with 450 named enslaved people.

Common Records 1792-1794, British Library, EAP794/1/1/24, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-24 pp. 114 et seq.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 62(F) 48(M)  
[Name] New Castle  
 

Return of James Daniell, owner; returned by E Stather, attorney

 
T71/364 54-56
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Newcastle  
 

Return of James Daniell, owner

 
T71/365 161-162
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] New Castle  
 

Return of James Daniell, owner

 
T71/366 141
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] New Castle  
 

Return of James Daniell, owner; returned by Thomas Mann

 
T71/367 125-126
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot) 39(F) 39(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of James Daniell, owner; returned by John Daniell

 
T71/368 175
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] New Castle  
 

Return of Messrs Paull and Edwards, trustees; returned by John Daniell

 
T71/369 162