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Clay Gut

Nevis | St George Gingerland

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

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 35 (Clay Gut)
£2,328 7S 7D

Estate Information (9)

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1785
 

The keystone over the main entrance was inscribed "The Honorable John Richardson Herbert, Esquire, 1785."

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Clay Gut Estate, Windmill, Virgin Islands National Park Field Office 1962, Historic American Building Survey
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot) 91(F) 73(M)  
[Name] Clay Gut  
 

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

 
T71/364 130-133
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Gut  
 

Return of Magnus Morton; "in the lawful possession of Martha Williams Hamilton deceased but now of Magnus Morton"

 
T71/365 56-58
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

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

 
T71/366 35-36
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Gut  
 

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

 
T71/367 31-22
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot) 76(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Clay Gut  
 

Return of Mrs Martha Williams Hamilton deceased, owner; returned by William Henry Rawlins

 
T71/368 41-42
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Gut  
 

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

 
T71/369 51 - 52
1836
[Size] 414  
[Stock] horse, mules, cattle, sheep  
 

All that plantation or estate, called Clay Gut, situate, lying, and being in the parish of Saint George, Gingerland ... containing about 164 a 3 r of cane land and about 250 a of pasture land, together with the remains of a dwelling house, windmill, and sugar works, and still house, in tolerable repair, 1 horse, 4 mules, 16 head horned cattle, 2 sheep, plantation implements and utensils, and the unexpired terms of apprenticeship of 27 male praedials, 37 female praedials, 13 boys praedials, 17 girls praedials, 7 male non-praedials, 11 female non-praedials, 1 boy non-praedials.

 
The London Gazette, Tuesday 11 Oct 1836 pp. 1770-1771
1962
 

"The present owner, Miss Eva Wilkin, was operating the mill when it finally closed just prior to World War II."

 
Clay Gut Estate, Windmill, Virgin Islands National Park Field Office 1962, Historic American Building Survey