Kearton's

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
1783 [SY] - 1803 [EY] → Owner
1792 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1765 [EA] - 1767 [LA] → Owner
1767 [EA] - 1783 [EY] → Joint owner

Different sources give different dates for the beginning of the joint-ownership between William Lindow and George Kearton, between 1763 and 1767.

1767 [EA] - 1786 [LA] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1827 [EY] → Joint owner

George Kearton had reportedly bought out his brother Thomas' interest in Keartons in exchange for an annuity of £500 currency p.a.


Associated Claims (1)

£178 18S 4D

Notes

  1. Sale of a Sugar Estate in the Island of Saint Vincent. SAINT VINCENT, Between Mary E. Kearton, Complainant In Chancery; and N. B. Cropper and others, Defendants.—25th. September 1833. IN pursuance of a Decree of this Honourable Court, made in the above cause, on Friday the 26th day of July last past, there will be exposed for sale, to the highest bidder, on the 1st day of May next ensuing, at my Chambers, in this Town of Kingstown, and Island aforesaid, between the hours of Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon and Three o'clock in the Afternoon; All the right, title, and interest of the late John Kearton, deceased, in and to that sugar plantation or estate, commonly known by the name of Kearton's, situate in the Parish of Saint Patrick, in the said Island, containing three hundred and eighty-five acres, be the same more or less, butted and bounded as follows, that is to say:—northerly and north-easterly, partly by the Wallabo Estate and partly by the Bellisle Estate; southerly, partly by lands formerly Russel's No. 54, by Byres's general plan of the Island, and partly by the Reversion Estate; and westerly by the sea; according' to the boundary lines established by a survey made by Joseph Billinghurst, Esq.Crown and Colony Surveyor, in the year 1807, or however the same is butted and bounded, known or described; together with all the buildings and sugar-works thereon erected, and dead stock thereunto belonging, with one hundred and six negro and .other slaves, four horses, twelve mules, eight asses, twenty-one head of horned cattle, and eleven sheep. Plans of the said estate may be. seen, and any further information had, on application at my Chambers, in the Town of Kingstown, in the said Island of Saint Vincent; or in London, at the Counting-House of John Constable, Esq. Brabant-Court, Philpot Lane. WM. R. SCOTT, Master in Chancery.-

Sources

London Gazette 19103 19/11/1833 p. 2139.


Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 65(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

George Kearton and Thomas Kearton as owners.

 
T71/493 340-343
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 14(F) 17(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

Henry Lindow Lindow and George Kearton and Thomas Kearton as owners.

 
T71/493 343-344
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 63(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

George Kearton and Thomas Kearton, now in the possession of the trustees of George Kearton.

 
T71/495 168-169
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot) 12(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

Henry Lindow Lindow and the trustees of George Kearton as owners.

 
T71/495 169
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot) 72(F) 69(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

The trustees of G Kearton [63 male and 63 female enslaved people] and the trustees of G Kearton and H Lindow [13 male and 12 female enslaved people] Statement sworn by H Basnett Cropper.

 
T71/497 123-124
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot) 70(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

The proprietors of Kearton's Estate. Statement sworn by H Bassnett Cropper [22 deaths].

 
T71/497 110-111
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 67(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

George Kearton deceased and Henry Lindow Lindow. Statement sworn by H Bassnett Cropper [22 deaths].

 
T71/499 96-97
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot) 57(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

Kearton's Estate. The property of James Crosby in right of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Crosby. Statement sworn by James Crosby. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 97 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 147-148
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 14(Tot) 7(F) 7(M)  
[Name] Kearton's Estate  
 

Kearton's Estate. The property of James Crosby in right of his wife, Mary Elizabeth Crosby and William Lindow Lindow. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 14 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 148