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Hope & Colquhouns

St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1751 [EY] → Owner
Nicholas Taylor

Inferred by LBS from comparison of the 1753 and 1828 maps of St Kitts. Hope in Christ Church Nichola Town in the 1828 William McMahon map (where it is marked 'The Hope of John Swindell Esqr.') appears to be the in the same location as the estate marked 'Taylors Island' and 'Nichs, Taylor Esq.' in the 1753 Samuel Baker map, on the eastern edge of the parish and adjacent to Bevon Island.

- 1813 [EY] → Owner
John Julius
1813 [SY] - 1815 [EY] → Owner
John Julius junior
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
John Julius
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executor
Rev. John Julius Kerie
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Swindell

The estate was 'delivered to' John Swindell 01/02/1826

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 687 (Hope & Colquhouns)
£3,401 12S 10D

Notes

This entry is for two estates; the second, Colhoun, was in St. John Capesterre. Hope in Christ Church Nichola Town in the 1828 William McMahon map (where it is marked 'The Hope of John Swindell Esqr.') appears to be the in the same location as the estate marked 'Taylors Island' and 'Nichs, Taylor Esq.' in the 1753 Samuel Baker map.

Sources

New Map of St. Christopher by Surveyor William McMahon 1828

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 430(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Julius, deceased owner; returned by John R Taylor, manager; the estates names were not given in this register, but have been identified using later registers as Mansion, Hope and Colhoun estates

 
T 71/253 508 -519
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
[Name] Hope & Calhoun  
 

Return of John Julius Esq, deceased owner; returned by Samuel R Thomas, manager.

 
T 71/255 57-59
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot)  
[Name] Hope and Colhoun  
 

Return of John Julius, deceased owner; returned by Samuel R Thomas, manager.

 
T 71/256 222-224
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Hope & Colhoun  
 

Returned by John Julius Kerie, executor of the estate of John Julius deceased owner; 229 enslaved people were on the estate on 1 Feb 1826 when the estate was delivered to John Swindell.

 
T 71/258 346
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Hope & Colhoun  
 

Return of the estates of John Swindell Esq, owner; returned by William Jordan, manager; there is another entry for these estates on folio 346.

 
T 71/258 128-135
1828
[Name] Colhoun  
[Size] 126  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 126 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 106 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Swindell.

Note Colhoun is in St John Capisterre and Hope is just over the border in Christ Church Nichola Town.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Name] Hope  
[Size] 287  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 287 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 107 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Swindell.

Note Colhoun is in St John Capisterre and Hope is just over the border in Christ Church Nichola Town.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Hope and Colqahoun  
 

Return of John Swindell Esq, owner; returned by William Jordan, manager.

 
T 71/259 137-138
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot)  
[Name] Hope and Colquhouns Estates  
 

Return of John Swindell, owner.

 
T 71/260 165 to 166