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Bottom and Carpoons (?)

St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point

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
- 1792 [EY] → Previous owner
Peter Matthew Mills

The 1817-1834 Slave Registers show this as the estate of Peter Matthew Mills deceased.

1792 [SY] - 1828 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
George Galway Mills

George Galway Mills inherited the real estate and enslaved people on St Kitts of his father Peter Matthew Mills, subject to trusts previously established by his father. It appears likely but not certain that under these trusts he was tenant-for-life, but he was possibly owner-in-fee.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
James Walker
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Manager
Joseph Salter

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 673 (Bottom and Carpoons (?))
£2,929 11S 4D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom & Carpons Estates  
 

Return of the trust estates of Peter Mathew Mills Esq, deceased, owner; returned by James Walker, manager.

 
T 71/253 098-102
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom & Carpon's  
 

Return of the trust estates of Peter M. Mills, deceased, owner; returned by Joseph Salter, manager.

 
T 71/255 70
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom and Carpong  
 

Return of the trust estate of P M Mills, deceased owner; returned by Joseph Salter, manager.

 
T 71/256 263-264
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom & Carpong  
 

Returned by Joseph Salter, manager for trust estate of Peter Mathew Mills, deceased owner. St. Ann, Sandy Point

 
T 71/258 85-86
1828
[Name] Bottom  
[Size] 143  
 

Listed in St Anne Sandy Point as an estate of 143 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 126 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) George G. Mills.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom and Carpong  
 

Return of the trust estate of Peter Matthew Mills deceased, owner; returned by Joseph Salter, manager.

 
T 71/259 81
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Bottom and Carpons  
 

Return of the trust estate of Peter Matthew Mills deceased, owner; returned by Joseph Salter, manager.

 
T 71/260 111 to 112