UCL

Mount Hope

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1802 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Joint owner
John Newcombe

By a deed of 19/07/1803 John Low conveyed to John Newcomb 20 named enslaved people. The deed gave a brief background, showing the two men as co-owners of Mount Hope which was a subject to a mortgage to John and Alexander Cruikshank of 1802.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Macduff Fyfe

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 639 (Mount Hope)
£640 8S 2D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

McDuff Fyfe as owner.

 
T71/493 304-305
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot) 27(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

McDuff Fyfe as owner.

 
T71/495 148-149
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot) 28(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

Macduff Fyffe.

 
T71/497 108
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot) 28(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

Macduff Fyffe. Statement sworn by William Malcolm.

 
T71/497 105
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot) 35(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

McDuff Fyffe. Statement sworn by N Bassnett Cropper [increase by transfer from the trustees of Nanny Simmons].

 
T71/499 100-101
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot) 31(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Mount Hope Estate  
 

Mount Hope Estate. The property of McDuff Fyffe. Statement sworn by N Bassnett Cropper [2 enslaved people declared as having obtained their freedom under the third section of the Slavery Abolition Act, they having been in England]. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 51 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 150