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Bevon Island

St Kitts | St John Capesterre

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
- 1795 [EY] → Owner
Ralph Willett
1753 [EA] - 1753 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Okes or Oakes Taylor
1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Previous owner
Samuel Okes or Oakes Taylor

Shown in the will of Ralph Willett proved 1795 as the previous owner of Bevon Island, and appearing on the 1753 Samuel Baker map against it.

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Joint owner
Evan Baillie

Owner recorded as Evan Baillie Sons & Co.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
John McDonell
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Manager
John Heynes O'Brien

John's middle name is spelt Haynes in the 1822 Slave Register.

1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
William Stephens
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Willett Willett
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Hon. Robert Claxton of St Kitts
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Henry Ralph Willett

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 748 (Bevon Island)
£1,424 1S 6D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island  
 

Return of Evan Bailie and sons, joint owners; returned by John McDonell, manager; this does not appear to be an agricultural estate and is not listed as such in the index of the slave register.

 
T 71/253 226-228
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island  
 

Return of Messrs Evan Ballie Sons and Co, joint owners; returned by John Haynes O'Brien, manager.

 
T 71/255 6
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island  
 

Return of Messrs Evan Baillie Sons and Co, owner; returned by John H O'Brien, manager.

 
T 71/256 41-42
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island  
 

Returned by William Stephens, attorney of Baillie Sons and Co, joint owners. St. John, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 5 to 6
1828
[Name] Bevon Island  
[Size] 82  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 82 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 52 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Willett Willett.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island  
 

Return of John Willett Willett Esq, owner; returned by Robert Claxton, attorney.

 
T 71/259 149
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] Bevon Island Estate  
 

Return of Henry Ralph Willett, owner; returned by Robert Claxton, attorney.

 
T 71/260 175