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Queensbury [Queensberry] Estate

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (9)

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
- 1775 [EY] → Owner
Sir William Young 1st Bart.
- 1818 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Slater of Liverpool
1818 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Leonard Slater
1775 [SY] - → Joint owner
Gill Slater
1775 [SY] - → Joint owner
Thomas Slater of Liverpool
1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Thomas Boddington of Clapton
1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Richard Maitland
1770 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Benjamin Boddington merchant of London
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Trustee
Sir Ferdinando Poole

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 578 (Queensbury Estate)
£4,125 11S 5D

Notes

Shephard shows Queensbury as the present estate against Lots no. 93 (382 acres, original purchaser Yeamans), no. 94 (74 acres, original purchaser Stephens), no. 102 (19 acres, original purchaser Mallony) and possibly 98 north of the Queen's River (296 acres, original purchaser Sir William Young), which shows 'N. Queensbury' against it as 'present estate'.

Sources

Charles Shephard An historical account of the Island of St Vincent Appendix XX.

Estate Information (9)

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1770
[Name] Queensberry  
 

Mortgaged in 1770 to Maitland and Boddington of London, part of £61,690 secured on three St Vincent estates.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017 sourced to: Bodleian Library Oxford, MS W. Ind, f.1 (notes this is the first volume of a collection of the papers of Young's son, the second Baronet; it largely deals with the management of his inheritance of West Indian lands from his father by Sir William Young the second); National Archives, TS 11/214-17; Public Ledger 03/10/1774 and further advertisements for the largely abortive sale of Young's assets that appeared in the London press between 1774 and 1776.
1774
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Queensbury  
[Size] 338  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

In October 1774 notice was published for the sale on 01/06/1775 of nine estates of Sir William Young 1st bart., including Queensbury in the valley of Buccament in St Vincent, 'completely settled and built', with watermill and two sets of works, 'a very good gang of seasoned Negroes' about 190 in number: 180 acres of the total of 338 were planted in cane.

 
Public Ledger 03/10/1774
1775
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Queensberry  
[Size] 318  
 

Sold for £26,000 to Gill Slater of Liverpool and Thomas Slater of Chesterfield. This was the only sale actually completed out of what was intended to be a comprehensive disposal of Young's assets in order to pay off his debts to the crown.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017 sourced to: Bodleian Library Oxford, MS W. Ind, f.1 (notes this is the first volume of a collection of the papers of Young's son, the second Baronet; it largely deals with the management of his inheritance of West Indian lands from his father by Sir William Young the second); National Archives, TS 11/214-17; Public Ledger 03/10/1774 and further advertisements for the largely abortive sale of Young's assets that appeared in the London press between 1774 and 1776.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

Thomas Slater of Liverpool as owner. 1 runaway

 
T71/493 293-296
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 100(F) 73(M)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

The late Thomas Slater of Liverpool, deceased; now transferred to Leonard Slater and others [20 enslaved people purchased from the estate of Hugh Lennox, deceased].

 
T71/495 144-145
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot) 87(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

Leonard Slater and others [42 deaths, 10 enslaved people purchased from the executor of A H Miller, deceased].

 
T71/497 103-104
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot) 88(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

Leonard Slater and others.

 
T71/497 101-102
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 86(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

Leonard Slater and others.

 
T71/499 90-91
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 84(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Queensbury Estate  
 

Queensbury Estate. The property of Leonard Slater. Statement sworn by N Bassnett Cropper. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 144 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 140-142