UCL

Kades Bay

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
1792 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Sir Cornelius Cuyler
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Previous owner
Walter Nisbet
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Other
John Cooke
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Lessee
John Taylor of Carshalton Park
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
Thomas Marr
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
James Daniell
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 124 (Kades Bay)
£556 1S 4D

Estate Information (7)

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1792
[Name] Keds [sic] Bay  
 

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] 55(Tot) 26(F) 29(M)  
[Name] Kades Bay  
 

Return of Heirs of Walter Nisbet deceased; returned by William Powell

 
T71/364 36-37
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Kade's Bay  
 

Return of the heirs of Walter Nisbett, deceased, owner; returned by John Cooke

 
T71/365 126-127
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Kades Bay  
 

Return of Messrs Plummer and Wilson; returned by John Cooke

 
T71/366 106
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 33(Tot)  
[Name] Kades Bay  
 

Return of John Taylor Esq.; returned by Thomas Marr

 
T71/367 92-93
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 34(Tot) 13(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Kades Bay  
 

Return of James Daniell Esq; returned by John Daniell

 
T71/368 121-122
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] Kades Bay  
 

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

 
T71/369 95