UCL

Hamilton's

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
1772 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Owner
Andrew Hamilton of Nevis

In 1805 Andrew Hamilton and his wife conveyed his estates to his creditors. (His wife's estates were protected by the entail under which she held them).

1772 [EA] - 1772 [LA] → Seller
Ralph Payne 1st Baron Lavington

David Lord Viscount Stormont' was party to an indenture of 11/08/1774 which recapitulated the marriage settlement of Sir Ralph Payne (q.v.) and Frances Kolbell 31/08/1767, of which Stormont and Henry Wilmot were trustees. Under the marriage settlement Frances nee Kolbell was to receive an annuity of £1000 p.a. after her husband's death, initially secured by the bond of Ralph Payne to the trustees for the penal sum of £40,000. In order to better secure the annuity, Payne conveyed his estates known as Walker or the Lower plantation or Wind Mill in St James in Figtree division on Nevis and De Witts (noted as having been purchased by Ralph Payne the father of Sir Ralph Payne), together with the enslaved people attached to them. Then in 1772 Payne agreed to sell the estates for £37,000 to Andrew Hamilton, taking back a mortgage for the purchase price. He and his wife therefore applied to Stormont and Wilmot to transfer the security for the annuity from the Nevis estates to Payne's estate in St John Capisterre on St Kitts with 182 enslaved people on it, and duly assigned the new estate and named enslaved people (already charged with an annuity of £500 p.a to Mary Magdalena Payne, widow of Stephen Payne (d. 1768)) to the trustees.

LBS has inferred Hamilton's to have evolved from one or both of the 1772 purchases on Nevis by Andrew Hamilton.

1805 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Not known
Martha Williams Hamilton (née Herbert)

Party with her husband Andrew Hamilton to a deed of 1805 assigning estates to the creditors of Andrew Hamilton.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Other
Horatio Iles
1817 [EA] - 1818 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Latham
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
George Latham
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Other
James Maynard
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Alfred Latham
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Walter Lewis Bucke

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 157 (Hamilton's)
£3,503 18S 11D

Notes

After it ceased to be a sugar estate in the 1950s Hamilton's was taken over by the government who offered it as small units for agricultural use, but even that has been given up and most of the estate ... reverted to acacia.

Sources

Neil Wright and Ann Wright (1991) "Hamilton's Sugar Mill, Nevis, Leeward Islands, Eastern Caribbean." Industrial Archaeology Review ; 13(2), pp 123 - 125. DOI: 10.1179/iar.1991.13.2.114

Estate Information (9)

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1772
[Name] Walkers or Lowland or Windmill and De Witts  
 

David Lord Viscount Stormont' was party to an indenture of 11/08/1774 which recapitulated the marriage settlement of Sir Ralph Payne (q.v.) and Frances Kolbell 31/08/1767, of which Stormont and Henry Wilmot were trustees. Under the marriage settlement Frances nee Kolbell was to receive an annuity of £1000 p.a. after her husband's death, initially secured by the bond of Ralph Payne to the trustees for the penal sum of £40,000. In order to better secure the annuity, Payne conveyed his estates known as Walker or the Lower plantation or Wind Mill in St James in Figtree division on Nevis and De Witts (noted as having been purchased by Ralph Payne the father of Sir Ralph Payne), together with the enslaved people attached to them. Then in 1772 Payne agreed to sell the estates for £37,000 to Andrew Hamilton, taking back a mortgage for the purchase price. He and his wife therefore applied to Stormont and Wilmot to transfer the security for the annuity from the Nevis estates to Payne's estate in St John Capisterre on St Kitts with 182 enslaved people on it, and duly assigned the new estate and named enslaved people (already charged with an annuity of £500 p.a to Mary Magdalena Payne, widow of Stephen Payne (d. 1768)) to the trustees.

LBS has inferred Hamilton's to have been formed from one or both of the estates purchased by Andrew Hamilton in 1772.

1805
[Name] Not given  
 

Call in 1819 under Baillie v Neave for beneficiaries of indenture of 20 August 1805 by which Andrew Hamilton formerly of Nevis and late of Harley Street and Martha Williams Hamilton his wife conveyed estates and slaves in Antigua and Nevis for benefit of creditors of Andrew Hamilton: creditors signing said deed were R. & T. Neave; Evan Baillie & sons; George Leigh, one of assignees of Lane and Company; Thomas Latham, one of surviving assignees of Lane & Co.; Thomas Latham; Thomas Davenport Latham; Slater and Jackson. London Gazette, Issue 18585, 16 June 1829, p. 1113.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of Thomas Latham, owner; returned by Horatio Iles

 
T71/364 189-193
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 115(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of George Latham and Co., owner; "late belonging to Thomas Latham Esq. deceased"

 
T71/365 91-92
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot) 112(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of George Latham Esq., owner; returned by James Maynard

 
T71/366 78-79
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of Alfred Latham, owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/367 76-78
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 119(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of Alfred Latham Esq., owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/368 86
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot) 122(F) 84(M)  
[Name] Hamiltons  
 

Return of Alfred Latham Esq., owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/369 90-91
1893
[Size] 500  
 
Legal Registry, Nevis, Registers of Estates; as found in Neil Wrigh and Ann Wright (1991) "Hamilton's Sugar Mill, Nevis, Leeward Islands, Eastern Caribbean." Industrial Archaeology Review; 13(2), p 122.DOI: 10.1179/iar.1991.13.2.114