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Theroulds / Somerset

St Kitts | Trinity Palmetto Point

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
1831 [SY] - 1831 [EY] → Other
Robert A. Boon

Start and end year are the earliest and latest dates of association that can be varied by the available sources. Robert made his father's return that appears in the 1831 Slave Register

1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Manager
John Dawson
  1. This manager is most likely the same John Dawson whom makes a claim for three enslaved people.
  2. Start and end year are the earliest and latest dates of association that can be varied by the available sources.
1824 [SY] - 1835 [EY] → Owner
Henry Boon
1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Owner
Nathaniel Wells

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 335 (Theroulds)
£1,179 6S 10D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Point Estate  
 

Return of Nathaniel Wells, owner; returned by Henry Rawlins, lessee.

 
T 71/253 562-564
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Nathaniel P P Wells, owner; returned by John Johnson, manager; the estate was 'formerly leased by Henry Rawlins Esq"

 
T 71/255 123
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Wells  
 

Henry Boon, owner; 59 enslaved people were purchased from Nathaniel Wells Esq and were 'received the 6th day of April 1824, the day [he] took possession'.

 
T 71/256 47-50
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Wells  
 

Return of Henry Boon, owner; "Wells PP" (Palmetto Point); two enslaved people were purchased from G H Burt Boon and appear in the 1822 slave register where he entered a return for 15 enslaved people who were not attached to an agricultural estate.

 
T 71/256 47-50
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Therouldes  
 

Return of Thomas Myles, manager for the estate of Henry Boon Esq, owner, at Trinity, Palmetto Point.

 
T 71/258 8
1828
[Name] Therouldes  
[Size] 119  
[Crop] sugar cane  
 

Total estate area in acres: 119.0.4 Cane Land: 73.1.34
Other Land: 45.2.10

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Somerset  
 

Return of Henry Boon, owner; returned by Robert A Boon, for his father.

 
T 71/259 12
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Somerset Estate  
 

Return of Henry Boon, owner; returned by John Dawson, manager.

 
T 71/260 17