UCL

Cox Heath

Nevis

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
Martha Williams Hamilton (née Herbert)
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Executor
Magnus Morton Herbert
1822 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Martha Williams Hamilton (née Herbert)
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
James Davoren
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
William Henry Rawlins

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 18 (Cox Heath)
£2,473 19S 7D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot) 70(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Coxheath  
 

Return of Mrs. Martha Williams, owner; returned by A. H. [sp?] Hamilton

 
T71/364 154-156
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Coxheath  
 

Return of Magnus Morton, in possession

 
T71/365 59-60
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Mrs Martha W Hamilton deceased; returned by Magnus Morton as executor [estate name not given in the return; information from other returns used to identify the estate]

 
T71/366 37
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Coxheath  
 

Return of Mrs Martha W Hamilton deceased, owner, in the possession of James Davoren as receiver; returned by F J Galpine

 
T71/367 30-32
1831
[Name] Coxheath  
 

Return of Mrs Martha Williams Hamilton, deceased, owner; the name of the person who submitted the return is not included

 
T71/368 43
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Coxheath  
 

Return of James Davoren, receiver in Chancery; returned by W H Rawlins

 
T71/369 50-51
1836
[Size] 220  
[Stock] horned cattle, sheep, asses  
 

All that plantation or estate, called Coxheath, situate, lying and being in the Parish of Saint John, Fig Tree ... consisting about 170 acres of cane land, and 50 acres of pasture land, with windmill and sugar works, boiling house, curing house, and still house, in good order, 46 head horned cattle, 14 sheep, 7 asses, plantation implements and utensils, and the unexpired term of apprenticeship of 29 male praedials, 40 female praedials, 17 boy praedials, 14 girls praedials, 8 male non-praedials, 5 female non-praedials, 2 boys non-praedials, 1 girl non-praedials; … and the unexpired terms of apprenticeship of such labourers respectively, as may be on the said estates respectively, on the said day of sale.

 
The London Gazette, Tuesday 11 Oct 1836 pp. 1770-1771