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:
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1828 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
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1827 [SY] - 1827 [EY] → Manager
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1827 [SY] - 1828 [EY] → Joint owner
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1827 [SY] - 1827 [EY] → Previous owner
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1817 [SY] - 1817 [EY] → Manager
The start and end dates are the earliest and latest dates of association which can be varied by the available sources. |
1821 [SY] - → Owner
Syder bought the estate in April 1821. He is dead by 1825. |
1818 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Owner
Woodley bought the estate from Henry Rawlins in 1818 and sold it in April 1821 to Joseph Syder. |
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
'Trust estate' of Stedman Rawlins senior owner. |
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
In 1828, the enslaved people on the estate were registered to 'Pinney & Ames' although Jeremiah Ames had died in 1820. Presumably the entry referred to a mortgage or other assignment dating from the period he was a partner. |
Associated Claims (1) |
£1,270 4S 5D
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Estate Information (14) |
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of the trust estate of Stedman Rawlins Sr, owner; returned by Thomas Jolly, manager.
T 71/253 567-569
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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)
[Name] The West Farm Return of John Woodley, barrister at law, owner; 103 enslaved people were acquired from Henry Rawlins with the West Farm Estate in 1818; it is noted that the 1817 registration was completed by Thomas Jolly manager of trust estate of Stedman Rawlins Sr called the West Farm.
T 71/255 119-121
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)
[Name] The West Farm 99 enslaved people were purchased with the West Farm Estate by Joseph Syder from the Honorable John Woodley in April 1821.
T 71/255 109-111
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of Joseph Syder, owner; 99 enslaved people were sold "to Joseph Syder with the West Farm Estate in April 1821'; Woodley retained 13 enslaved people.
T 71/255 119-121
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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of Joseph Syder, owner; returned by Thomas Swanston MD, attorney
T 71/255 109-111
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of Joseph Syder, owner; returned by Thomas Swanston MD, attorney; 93 enslaved people were received with the estate on 27 May 1823 burchase from the Hon John Woodley
T 71/257 369-373
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1824
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of Joseph Syder, deceased owner; returned by T Pemberton, receiver; this is preceded by an entry concerning the same estate.
T 71/257 373
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Returned by T Pemberton, receiver of the estate of Joseph F Syder, deceased owner. Notes that the enslaved were delivered into the possession of the Hon'ble J C Mills Esq, attorney of Charles Pinney Esq of Bristol merchant on 25 April 1827.
T 71/258 150
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1828
[Name] West Farm
[Size] 208 [Crop] sugar Listed in Trinity Palmetto Point as an estate of 208 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 110 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Amory.
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)
[Name] West Farm John James Amory, owner; 94 enslaved people were purchased from Charles Pinney Esquire in June 1828.
T 71/259 6 to 7
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of F E Brown, manager of the estate of Pinney Ames and Co, joint owners; 97 enslaved people were received from Thomas Pemberton, receiver for the Court of Chancery of the estate of the late Joseph Syder; there is another entry for the same estate on page 150. Trinity, Palmetto Point
T 71/258 94-97
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1828
[Size] 208
[Crop] sugar cane Total area in acres: 208.2.17 Cane Land: 110.3.32 Other Land: 97.2.25
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of John James Amory, owner.
T 71/259 6 to 7
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1834
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)
[Name] West Farm Return of John James Amory, owner; 15 enslaved people were condemned by the Court of Admiralty.
T 71/260 2 to 3
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