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Fountain

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1784 [SY] - 1815 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
Sir John Boyd 2nd Bart.

Shown in the will of Sir John Boyd 1st bart. [made 1797, proved 1800] to have been settled by him on his son John [later 2nd bart.] on the latter's marriage [in 1784, to Margaret Harley, daughter of Thomas Harley].

- 1784 [EY] → Owner
Sir John Boyd 1st Bart.
- 1765 [EY] → Owner
Augustus Boyd
1815 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir John Boyd 3rd Bart.
1712 [EA] - 1722 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
Walter Hamilton

'In 1712 Colonel William McDowell held the Fountain estate in trust for General Walter Hamilton who was made governor of the Leeward Islands for a second time in 1715. Meanwhile he had married Dame Frances Stapleton, (the widow of Sir William Stapleton 3rd Baronet) who accompanied him to the Caribbean. The grant through McDowell was renewed in 1717 and 1721. Hamilton died in 1722. In 1726, a commission of three men was given authority to sell the French lands to the highest bidder in parcels of not more than 200 acre. That year, through her attorneys Dame Frances Stapleton attempted to secure the ownership of the estate she had inherited from her husband. She claimed she owned: Three hundred & thirty three acres (viz.) Two hundred & forty acres of Caneland, ninety three acres of provisions & pasture land; which plantation is com’only call’d the Fountain or Castle plantation: and signifys that she has thereon two Sugar Mills a Boiling house & Curinghouse, a Still-house, a Storehouse & a small Dwelling house: that she has besides about a hundred acres of plant-canes & provisions for about one hundred & fifty slaves for six months: that the said Cane-land may be worth Eight pounds Sterling per acre, & the provision & pasture land Six pounds Sterling per acre.

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 275 (Fountain)
£2,858 11S 8D

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 438(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain and Palmetto Estates  
 

Return of William Manning, John Drummond and George Grote, trustees for Sir John Boyd Bart., owner; returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, attorney; these two estates are returned together with the enslaved attached to Fountain Estate listed on pages 324-329; the number 205 is written in pencil at the end of this part of the list; the enslaved attached to Palmetto Point Estate are listed on pages 329-335.

 
T 71/253 324-335
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain  
 

Return of the trustees of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner; William Manning, John Drummond and George Grote; returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, attorney.

 
T 71/255 9 to 10
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain  
 

Return of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner; returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, lessee.

 
T 71/256 208-215
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain  
 

Returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, attorney to the trustees of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner: William Manning Esq, John Drummond Esq, George Grote Esq

 
T 71/256 53-54
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain  
 

Returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, lessee of the estate of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner. St. Peter, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 59-60
1828
[Name] Fountain  
[Size] 184  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Peter Basseterre as an estate of 184 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 109 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Sir John Boyd Bart.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain Estate  
 

Return of the trust estate of Sir John Boyd, owner; returned by Nicholas C Henry, manager; 178 enslaved people were delivered to Charles Adamson, attorney of George Boyd on 31st December 1830. The information concerning the date of sale is found in the preceeding return on page 25.

 
T 71/260 31
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain  
 

Return of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner; returned by Nicholas Clements Henry , manager to the trust estate; 183 enslaved people were delivered up by the lessee on 1 October 1830; this entry was made on 1st January 1831 with Henry as the manager to the trust estates of Sir Boyd; another entry concerning this same estate on page 25 is Nicholas Clements Henry as lessee.

 
T 71/259 26
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Fountain Estate  
 

Return of George Boyd, owner; returned bu John Terry, manager; this return is followed by another concerning the same estate on page 31 returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, manager for Sir John Boyd, owner; it shows that 178 enslaved people were delivered to Charles Adamson, attorney to George Boyd, by desire of the trustees of Sir John Boyd."

 
T 71/260 25 to 30