UCL

Bath

St Lucia

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
02/09/1824 [SD] - → Owner
John Myers
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Assignee
Mr. Clairfond Duboulay
18/10/1800 [SD] - → Joint owner
Mathusin Leverrier Bergopzoom
- 02/09/1824 [ED] → Owner
Mathusin Leverrier Bergopzoom
18/10/1800 [SD] - → Joint owner
Pierre Modeste Zenon Leverrier Bergopzoom
- 18/10/1800 [ED] → Owner
Jean Francois Guignon
05/03/1835 [SD] - → Owner
D. Minvielle
1855 [SY] - → Owner
C. Rosemont

Associated Claims (1)

St Lucia 500 (Bath)
£318 10S 5D

Estate Information (8)

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1800
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] Bat  
 

The original compensation counterclaim forms give a history of the ownership of the estate. It was in 1834 owned by "The heirs absent or unknown of the late John Myers deceased in this Colony assigned at the residence of the King's Attorney General To Mr Clairfond Duboulay in name and as administrator of the Vacant Succession of the late John Myers."

10/10/1800, Mr Jean Francois Guignon, Planter, in the quarter of Choiseuil, sold to Mr Pierre Modeste Zenon Leverrier and Mathusin Leverrier Bergopzoom, Brothers, Planters in the quarter of Soufriere, a coffee plantation called Bat, situated in the Valley of L'EEtang Mahanet together with its dependencies and fifteen slaves of all ages and all sexes which were attached to it. Part of the estate was already mortgaged before this sale.

02/09/1824, Mr Mathurin Leverrier Bergopzoon sold the estate to John Myers.

 
T71/884 and Y71/1244.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] Bath  
 

Return of John Myers, owner; in English; coffee estate ; Choiseul

 
T71/379 20
1824
[Name] Bath  
 

The original compensation counterclaim forms give a history of the ownership of the estate. It was in 1834 owned by "The heirs absent or unknown of the late John Myers deceased in this Colony assigned at the residence of the King's Attorney General To Mr Clairfond Duboulay in name and as administrator of the Vacant Succession of the late John Myers."

10/10/1800, Mr Jean Francois Guignon, Planter, in the quarter of Choiseuil, sold to Mr Pierre Modeste Zenon Leverrier and Mathusin Leverrier Bergopzoom, Brothers, Planters in the quarter of Soufriere, a coffee plantation called Bat, situated in the Valley of L'EEtang Mahanet together with its dependencies and fifteen slaves of all ages and all sexes which were attached to it. Part of the estate was already mortgaged before this sale.

02/09/1824, Mr Mathurin Leverrier Bergopzoon sold the estate to John Myers.

 
T71/884 and T71/1244
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] Bath  
 

Return of John Myers, owner; coffee estate; in English ; Choiseul

 
T71/387 1159
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] Bath  
 

Return of John Myers, owner; in English; Choiseul

 
T71/388 1299
1834
[Name] Bath  
 

Bath Estate was later sold by the heirs of John Myers (they were not identified) to D. Minvielle 05/03/1835.

 
Email with copies of documents from Dey Meyers, 22/03/2013, 26/03/2013, 13/11/2013 and 19/11/2013.
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 16(Tot)  
[Name] Bath  
 

Return of the estate of John Myers, owner; coffee plantation; in English; Choiseul

 
T71/390 1606
1855
[Name] Bath  
 

Bath Estate was later sold by the heirs of John Myers (they were not identified) to D. Minvielle 05/03/1835 who sold the estate again in 1855 to C. Rosemont.

 
Emails from Dey Myers with photographs of documents, 22/03/2013, 26/03/2013, 13/11/2013 and 20/11/2013.