UCL

The Whim

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Finlay Nicholson
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Butler Thompson Claxton
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Receiver
Samuel W. Wattley
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
George S.W. Wattley

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 13 (The Whim)
£1,749 11S 5D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Return of Finlay Nicholson(121); Finlay Nicholson [Jr ?] (5) ; Mrs. Nicholson (8); Garvey Nicholson (1); Laurence Nicholson (3) ; Ann Nicholson (1), , owners

 
T71/364 142-144
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Return of Finlay Nicholson, owner

 
T71/365 270-271
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Whim  
 

formerly of Finlay Nicholson; returned by F. Nicholson

 
T71/366 200
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Return of the trustees of Butler Thompson Claxton, owner; returned by Robert Claxton

 
T71/367 199-201
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 59(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Return of Samuel W Wattley Esq., receiver; 114 enslaved people were received by transfer from the trustees of Butler Thompson Claxton Esquire, the former possessors

 
T71/368 236-239
1834
[Name] Whim  
 

Return of George S. W. Wattley, owner; no total of enslaved people is given in the return; there is an increase of 8 by birth and a decrease of 17, 16 of which are by death, with one having 'absconded'.

 
T71/369 235-236