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Diamond

St Kitts | St George Basseterre

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
1822 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
Sir James Henry Blake 3rd. Bart.
01/12/1824 [SD] - 1833 [LA] → Lessee (Estate)
William Derrickson Beard

Received 62 enslaved people with the estate from Charles Adamson esq 1st December 1824.

20/09/1833 [SD] - → Owner
Sir Henry Charles Blake 4th Bart.

58 enslaved people were "received from William Derrickson Beard, Lesee of the Diamond Estate" on 20 Sept. 1833.

1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Attorney
Charles Adamson
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Manager
Farrill Fitzgerald
1824 [EA] - 01/12/1824 [ED] → Manager
William Derrickson Beard
1833 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Benjamin Buck Greene

Attorney of Henry Charles Blake

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 159 (Diamond, Basseterre)
£1,032 11S 0D

Estate Information (9)

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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir James Henry Blake Bart., owner; returned by Farrill Fitzgerald, manager; this entry, which was returned on 9 Apr 1822, it is preceded by two others: one by Charles Adamson, attorney, on 1 Aug 1821 (the date on which he passed the estate over to T Pemberton) and another by T Pemberton, attorney, on 9 Jan 1822 .

 
T 71/255 16
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir Jas H Blake Bart., owner; returned by William Derrickson Beard, manager.

 
T 71/256 42
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir J H Blake Bart., owner; returned by William Derrickson Beard, lessee; 62 enslaved people were "received with the estate from Charles Adamson Esq on December 1st 1824"; this is preceded by a return for the same estate.

 
T 71/256 42-45
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Returned by William Derrickson Beard, lessee of the estate of Sir James Henry Blake Bart., owner. St. George, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 6
1828
[Name] Diamond  
[Size] 124  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Cane Land 113.2.10
Other Land 11.0.9 Total Land 124.2.19

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1828
[Name] Diamond  
[Size] 124  
 

Listed in St George Basseterre as an estate of 124 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 113 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Sir James Blake, Bart.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir James Henry Blake, owner; returned by William Derrickson Beard , lessee.

 
T 71/259 13
1833
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir James Henry Blake, owner; returned by William Derrickson Beard, lessee delivered 58 enslaved people " to the attorney of John Gage and Henry John Adeane (sp), trustees to the estate of Sir James Henry Blake Bart., Sept 20 1833."

 
T 71/260 4 to 6
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond  
 

Return of Sir Henry Charles Blake, owner; returned by B B Greene, attorney; another return for the same estate is found on page 58 returned by William Derrickson Beard, lessee for Sir James Henry Blake, owner.

 
T 71/260 4 to 6