Dieppe Bay

Estate Details


Associated People (7)

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
1753 [EA] - 1753 [LA] → Not known

Shown on Samuel Baker's 1753 map as Charles Canes at 'Deep Bay.'

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
1824 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,686 8S 2D

Estate Information (12)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 565(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Clement Caines, owner.

 
T 71/253 130-145
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 391(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Hanway Howard Caines, owner; 412 enslaved people were purchased at Marshals sale as the property of Clement Caines decd.

 
T 71/254 290-308
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of H H Caines, former owner; returned by John Swindell, receiver in Chancery; notes that the enslaved were "transferred from the Rosehill estate by John Swindell as receiver to that estate by an Order from the Chancellor Governor Maxwell" on 8 July 1824. The wording here and in the index indicates that the receiver is claiming the enslaved people, but not the estate itself.

 
T 71/256 345
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of H H Caines, former owner; returned by John Swindell, receiver in Chancery.

 
T 71/256 345
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of H H Caines, owner; not listed as an estate in the index, but includes field workers; 77 enslaved people were "delivered to John Swindell Esq as receiver to the Rose Hill Estate, by an Order from the Chancellor Governor Maxwell; 56 enslaved people were taken away by an action of detinue by the attorney of Wilson Greatheed.

 
T 71/256 79-85
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Deep Bay  
 

Return of Hanway Howard Caines, owner; shows how the enslaved people on the estate was divided up with the majority being "levied on and sold under executions at suit of various persons and purchased on the 5th of May 1825 by Messrs Smith and Piguenit"; next to the names of 10 people is written "these ten people were taken from me previous to 1825, at that time I recorded them conceiving that I had an equity of redemption in them. The equity of redemption purchased by the said Smith and Piguenit at Marshal's sale aforesaid'; Caines retained two people.

 
T 71/258 21-28
1828
[Name] Deep Bay  
[Size] 162  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 162 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 126 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Messrs. Smith & Piguenit.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Messrs Smith and Piguenit, owners; returned by Hanway Howard Caines manager of their estates. St. John, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 119-127
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Messrs Smith and Piguenit, joint owners; returned by Hanway Howard Caines, manager of their estates; 236 enslaved people were purchased at Marshal's sale under various executions against Hanway Howard Caines in May 1825; 28 of those listed were then delivered to the trustees of Bayford on 7 May 1825.

 
T 71/258 119-127
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 211(Tot)  
[Name] Dieppe Bay  
 

Return of Messrs Smith and Piguenit , owners; returned by Andrew Lynch French, manager; "two female children born and died within 9 days not named".

 
T 71/259 134-135
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] D. Bay Estate  
 

Return of James Royer Smith and George Henry Burt, joint owners; returned by Burton G Robinson, manager; 207 enslaved people were transferred from James R Smith and James G Piguenit; this is followed by a separate entry concerning the same estate.

 
T 71/260 154 to 159
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Name] D. Bay Estate  
 

Return of James R. Smith and James G Piguenit, joint owners; returned by Burton G Robinson, manager.

 
T 71/260 159 to 165