Boyd's estate

Estate Details


Associated People (13)

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
- 1815 [LA] → Owner
01/10/1830 [SD] - 31/12/1830 [ED] → Manager
31/12/1830 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
- 1800 [EY] → Owner

Inferred by LBS to have been owned by the 1st Bart.: it was certainly owned by the 2nd Bart.

1815 [EA] - → Owner

The entry in the Slave Registers might refer to the trust estate of the 2nd bart., rather than to his son the 3rd bart.

1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 01/10/1830 [ED] → Lessee
1830 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Manager

Associated Claims (1)

£4,298 3S 9D

Estate Information (8)

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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

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

 
T 71/255 7 to 8
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 247(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

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

 
T 71/256 199-208
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

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

 
T 71/256 54-55
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 371  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in Trinity Palmetto Point as an estate of 371 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 192 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Sir John Boyd Bart.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

Return of Nicholas Clements Henry, lessee of the estate of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner. Trinity, Palmetto Point

 
T 71/258 58-59
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

Return of the trust estate of Sir John Boyd, owner; returned by Nicholas C Henry, manager; 254 enslaved people were delivered to Charles Adamson, attorney of George Boyd on 31st Dec. 1830. The information concerning the date of sale is found in an entry on page 18.

 
T 71/260 31
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

Return of Sir John Boyd Bart., owner; Nicholas Clements Henry , manager to the trust estate; 259 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 pages 23-24 is Nicholas Clements Henry as the lessee.

 
T 71/259 26
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Palmetto Point  
 

Return of George Boyd, owner; returned by William Adamson, attorney and manager; there is another return for this estate on page 30 returned by Nicholas Clements Henry, manager for Sir John Boyd, owner; it shows that 254 enslaved people were "delivered to Charles Adamson, attorney to George Boyd, by desire of the trustees of Sir John Boyd".

 
T 71/260 18 to 25