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Willets Estate

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
1783 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Edward Brazier
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Ralph Willett

Ralph Willett of Merly was shown as holding a mortgage of £8000 over the estate then known as Ham Lodge, previously Willetts, in 1783 when the estate was sold by Joseph Coates and his wife Mary to Edward Brazier subject to the mortgage.

1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Heir-at-law
Mary Coates (née Bowles)
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Long of St Kitts
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Previous owner
Edward Brazier
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Samuel Long of St Kitts
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Judgement creditor
Samuel Boddington
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Judgement creditor
Richard Davis

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 297 (Willets Estate)
£2,037 19S 8D

Estate Information (8)

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By indentures of 01/01/1783 and 02/01/1783, Joseph Coates wine merchant of Bristol and his wife Mary who was sister and heir at law of William Bowles deceased intestate sold to Edward Brazier an estate and sugar works called Ham Lodge, formerly known as Willetts, in St John Figtree and St Pauls 'or one of them', and 74 named enslaved people for £2136, subject to a mortgage for £8000 to Ralph Willett of Merly. Mary Coates provided a separate attestation that she was acting voluntarily. Common Records 1783-1785, British Library, EAP794/1/1/19, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-19 pp. 40-52.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot) 59(F) 76(M)  
[Name] Willets  
 

Return of Edward Brazier, owner

 
T71/364 186-188
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 57(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Willetts  
 

Return of Samuel Long, owner; returned by J Brazier, executor to the late Edward Brazier and attorney to William Long; the estate used to belong to Edward Brazier

 
T71/365 268-269
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 56(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Willets  
 

Return of Samuel Long, deceased, owner; returned by George W. Cousins

 
T71/366 202-203
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot) 53(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Willets  
 

Return of Samuel Long Esq., deceased, owner; returned by George W. Cozens

 
T71/367 189-190
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 51(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Willetts  
 

Return of Samuel Long Esq., deceased owner; returned by George W Cousins

 
T71/368 246
1831
 

William McMahon of Middlesex, executor of Samuel Long's will, gives power of attorney to Charles Matthias Sughnee (sp?), of Stepney Green, Middlesex, Commander of the Ship William Lusher. It is noted that the Commander was about to leave for St Kitts and Nevis to take possession of Long's plantation in Nevis, house in Basseterre St. Kitts, any other relevant estates, and the enslaved people attached to them.

 
No. 18521, pg. 228, Deed Book H No. 4 1831-33 (St. Kitts Archives)
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)  
[Name] Willetts  
 

Return of Samuel Long deceased, owner, in the possession of Messrs Boddington and Parris [= Davis]; returned by Richard Edward Cardin.

 
T71/369 234-235