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Belle Tete

St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Richard Augustus Fahie

The estate appears to have been in financial difficulty by the time Fahie died, since in 1829 the Slave Register shows '85 enslaved people were acquired by Hugh Ryley Semper and George Fahie, joint owners "by purchase on the 1st Oct. 1829 of the mortgage and judgement claims against late Richard A Fahie".'

1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Hugh Ryley Semper
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
George Augustus W. Fahie

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 592 (Belle Tete)
£324 6S 7D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Richard A Fahie Esq, owner; returned by Samuel Calneck, manager.

 
T 71/253 170-173
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Richard Augustus Fahie, owner; includes a note concerning a petition about 7 enslaved people, found on folio 224, whom he says belong to his children and not him.

 
T 71/255 45
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Belle T?te  
 

Return of Richard Augustus Fahie for self and children, joint owners.

 
T 71/256 170-171
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Tete  
 

Return of Richard Fahie, owner; 11 enslaved people were 'given over to [his] children being a gift from Mrs Perde of Tortola to them'; 1 person was given over to Miss Agnes Fahie by a gift to her by Mrs Perreau and 1 person was given over to Mrs Semper by a gift from her grandmother Mrs Fahie. St. Ann, Sandy Point

 
T 71/258 347
1828
[Name] Belle Tete  
[Size] 111  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Anne Sandy Point as an estate of 111 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 76 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Richard A. Fahie.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

85 enslaved people were acquired by Hugh Ryley Semper and George Fahie, joint owners "by purchase on the 1st Oct. 1829 of the mortgage and judgement claims against late Richard A Fahie".

 
T 71/259 58-60
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Hugh Ryley Semper and George Fahie, joint owners; returned by Hugh Ryley Semper.

 
T 71/259 58-60
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Hugh Ryley Semper and George A W Fahie, joint owners.

 
T 71/260 153