UCL

Mathews, Cayon

St Kitts | St Mary Cayon

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Daniel Byam Mathew

The 1817 Slave Register gives D.B. Mathew owner; in subsequent years, the registration was for 'Daniel Mathew deceased', possibly Daniel Byam Mathew's father, whose will was proved in 1777.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
James Gambier Baron Gambier

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 282 (Mathews, Cayon)
£4,968 10S 3D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 360(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of D B Mathew Esq, owner; returned by Richard Cardin, attorney.

 
T 71/253 438-448
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 321(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of Daniel Matthew Esq, deceased owner; returned by George Winchester , manager.

 
T 71/255 66-68
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of Daniel Mathew, deceased owner; returned by George Winchester, manager.

 
T 71/256 258-260
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 310(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of the estate of Daniel Mathew Esq, deceased owner; returned by James Fitz Patrick, manager. St. Mary, Cayon

 
T 71/258 82-84
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 613  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Mary Cayon as an estate of 613 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 455 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Daniel B. Mathew.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of Daniel Mathew, deceased owner; returned by Thomas Swanston, attorney.

 
T 71/259 73-74
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of James Gambier, receiver of the estate of Daniel Mathew Esq deceased, owner; returned by Thomas Swanston, attorney.

 
T 71/260 107 to 109