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Jessups Estate

Nevis | St Thomas Lowland

Estate Details

Associated People (11)

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
1770 [SY] - 1811 [EY] → Owner
John Ede of Ickenham

Inherited the estate from his brother-in-law Edward Jesup who died in 1770.

1736 [EA] - 1770 [EY] → Owner
Edward Jesup of Writtle Park

The estate has been the subject of recent archaeological work recorded at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), Jillian Galle and Roger Leech, 'Jessups' (May, 2011) give a brief history of the estate, http://www.daacs.org/plantations/jessups/#background [accessed 02/07/2016].

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
Job Ede

Job registered the entry for Jessups in 1831 for himself and his brother.

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
John Ede

Ede was listed as joint owner with his brother Job in the 1831 slave register

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
John Andrew Stancliff
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Manager
William Murray
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Attorney
George Bucke
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Manager
William Seabrock

Seabrock is listed as being the estate's Acting Manager in 1828.

1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
Peter Thomas Huggins

In the 1831 Slave Register, Huggins is listed as being the estate's Acting Attorney in 1828.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Job Ede
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Walter Lewis Bucke

Bucke registered the estate for Job Ede in 1834, but his association to the estate is not recorded in the Slave Register.

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 128 (Jessops Estate)
£2,262 3S 3D

Sources

The estate has been the subject of recent archaeological work recorded at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS), Jillian Galle and Roger Leech, 'Jessups' (May, 2011), http://www.daacs.org/plantations/jessups/#background [accessed 02/07/2016].

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 76(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Jesup  
 

Return of John Ede and Job Ede, owners; returned by John Andrew Stancliff, manager

 
T 71/364 15-17
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Jesup's  
 

Return of John Ede and Job Ede, owners; returned by William Murray, manager

 
T 71/ 365 119-121
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Jesup  
 

Return of John Ede Esq. and Job Ede Esq., owners; returned by George Bucke, attorney

 
T 71/366 102
1828
[Name] Jessups  
 

In the 1831 Slave Register, the entry for Jessups is followed by a petition from Job Ede stating he was just finding out that the 1828 return which was completed by his then Acting Manager William Seabrock and handed over to Peter Thomas Huggins, his then Acting Attorney, had not been recorded in the Books of Record at the Office of the Registrar of Slaves. He explained that 'at the time of the making of the said Return [he was] resident in England' and didn't know of the omission until he came to submit the present return. He then lists 8 increases by birth and 10 decreases by death as per the previous (1828) return.

 
T 71/368
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot) 64(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Jessups  
 

Return of John Ede and Job Ede, owners; this entry is followed by a petition concerning the 1828 return which had not been submitted.

 
T 71/368 116-117
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] Jesups  
 

Return of Job Ede, owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T 71/ 369 150-151