UCL

French Ground

St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point

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
1744 [SY] - 1801 [EY] → Owner
Sir Gillies Payne
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir Charles Payne

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 461 (French Ground)
£4,234 17S 2D

Estate Information (9)

What is this?

1726
[Size] 208  
 

Charles Payne was granted land in the Capisterre Quarter of St. Kitts, which had formerly been held by the French.

For a transcription of the guide visit St. Kitts-Nevis Genealogy Home

 
A Guide to the Sales of the French Lands Prepared by the King's Commissioners 1726, St. Kitts Archives
1758
[Size] 200  
 

Lease and release to bar the entail, 9, 10 February 1758 (i) Sir Gillies Payne, baronet, of St. Christopher, now residing in Roxton, Bedfordshire (ii) John Booth of Glatton Hall, Huntingdonshire. A half part of plantations of 200 acres called French Ground plantation...in parish of St. Ann, St. Christopher...

 
Essex Record Office D/DBs T97, No.2
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne, owner; returned by William Warner, manager.

 
T 71/253 309-314
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne, owner; returned by William Warner, manager.

 
T 71/255 73-74
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Sir Gillies  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne Bart., owner; returned by Charles Pearl, manager; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

 
T 71/256 297-298
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Sir Gilles  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne Bt., owner; returned by Charles Pearl, manager. St. Ann, Sandy Point

 
T 71/258 91-92
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 123  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Anne Sandy Point as an estate of 123 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 88 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Charles Payne.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne, owner; returned by Charles Pearl, manager.

 
T 71/259 118-120
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir Charles Payne, owner; returned by Charles Pearl, manager.

 
T 71/260 118 to 119