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Harris'

St Kitts | St John Capesterre

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Stedman Rawlins

In the hands of receivers in the 1820s

1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Not known
Robert Dennistoun

G & R Dennistoun were shown as proprietors of Harriss [sic] and Geagans in the key William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts. This is not supported by the Slave Registers, but the estate was in Chancery in 1828 and Dennistouns were thus possibly creditors..

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
James MacQueen
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Alexander Macdonnell [McDonnell]

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 743 (Harris')
£1,164 6S 9D

Estate Information (10)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Geagan's and Harrison's estates  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins R, owner.

 
T 71/253 487-491
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Geagan's and Harris's  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins Esq R, owner; 132 enslaved were delivered to John Swindell, the receiver, between 30 August and 30 November 1822.

 
T 71/256
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Geagan's and Harris's  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins Esq R, owner; returned by John Swindell, receiver under the Court of Chancery; the preceding return on pages 320-325, concerns the same estate.

 
T 71/256 325 - 331
1828
[Name] Geagans  
[Size] 138  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 138 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 120 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Messrs. G. & R. Dennistoun & Co.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Name] Harriss's  
[Size] 239  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 239 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 128 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Messrs. G. & R. Dennistoun & Co.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Geagan's & Harriss's  
 

Return of the estates of Stedman Rawlins R, owner; returned by John Swindell, receiver under the Court of Chancery. St. John, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 105
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Harris's  
 

J W Moody, owner; 110 enslaved people were purchased from McQueen McKay and Co on the 1st of May 1829. The preceding return, found on pages 107-113, is for the same group of enslaved people and shows that they were previously attached to Belle Vue Estate.

 
T 71/259 110-113
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Harris's  
 

Return of J W Moody, owner.

 
T 71/259 110-113
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Harris's Estate  
 

Return of James McQueen and Alexander McDonnell, owner; returned by Benjamin Clifton Caines, manager; 101 enslaved people were acquired by transfer from John William Moody who has a separate entry for the same estate, on pages 87-90. 20 February 1834

 
T 71/260 84-87
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John William Moody, owner; returned by Charles McMahon, registering capacity not given. 10 February 1834

 
T 71/260