UCL

Redemption Estate

St Vincent

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
Previous owner
Harry Alexander

Tentatively inferred to be the same estate and same man as shown by Charles Shephard App. XX as the first purchaser of the land becoming Liberty Lodge and Redemption.

- 1807 [EY] → Legatee
Caroline Barnewall

Caroline Barnewall was left £500 secured on the estate by her uncle George Sharpe in 1807.

- 1807 [EY] → Owner
George Sharpe
1807 [SY] - → Heir
George Henry Sharpe

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 554 (Redemption Estate)
£3,559 16S 1D

Notes

Shephard shows Redemption as the 'present estate' against Lots no. 112 (59 acres, original purchaser Smith), no. 113 (50 acres, original purchaser Sharpe) and no. 114 (85 acres, original purchaser Becket).

Sources

Charles Shephard An historical account of the Island of St Vincent Appendix XX.

Estate Information (6)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

The estate of George Sharpe, deceased as owner.

 
T71/493 256-258
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 61(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

The heirs of George Sharpe, deceased.

 
T71/495 123-124
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 64(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

The heirs of George Sharpe.

 
T71/497 88
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 67(F) 59(M)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

Redemption Estate of George H Sharpe. Statement sworn by James Stevenson.

 
T71/497 85-86
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot) 67(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

The heirs of the late of George Sharpe, deceased. Statement sworn by James Robertson, manager.

 
T71/499 77-78
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 72(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Redemption Estate  
 

Redemption Estate. The property of the heirs of the late George Henry Sharpe, deceased. Statement sworn by Niven McKenzie. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 134 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 117-118