Peruvian Vale and Henry's Vale

[Mortgage] 30/06/1802  

By deeds of 30/06/1802 and 01/07/1802, Andrew Ross and John Kean, then owners, mortgaged Peruvian Vale and Henry's Vale with the enslaved people upon them to Thomas Hammond for £15,000. Hammond was acting as trustee for Richard and John Sayers of Dublin, and the mortgage deed required the consigning of the produce to the Sayers and for the plantation-supplies to be bought from them as mortgagees. (The Sayers were in partnership with a man named [John] Gordon). Half of Peruvian Vale and the whole of Henry's Vale were at the time of the Sayers' mortgage already subject to a first mortgage from Mannings & Co.; the other half of Peruvian Vale was subject to a separate mortgage from Slater & Robinson. The Sayers bought out these other interests in 1807, and took possession of the estates until 1814. Ross's successors launched a suit in 1814 which George Whitfield continued, contesting the fees charged by the mortgagees.

'Sayers v Whitfield' (1829), in Jerome William Knapp, Edmund Fitz Moore (eds.) Reports of cases argued and determined before the Committees heard before the Committees of His Majesty's Privy Council (1831)

[Mortgage] 27/06/1810  

Under a deed of 27/06/1810, Manning & Anderdon and their former partner Charles Bosanquet, and Richard Sayers and John Gordon of Dublin conveyed half of Peruvian Vale and the enslaved people attached to it to Robert Claxton and Butler Thompson Claxton. The deed rehearsed the 1801 mortgage of half the estate and enslaved people for £4000 by Andrew Ross and his wife Ann to Manning, Anderdon & Bosanquet. [This deed is not wholly consistent with the account given above in 1831].

Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 284-310

[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estate  

Edward Caines, receiver under the Court of Chancery.

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[Number of enslaved people] 349(Tot) 185(F) 164(M)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estate  

The heirs of George Whitfield, deceased [increase by births and many enslaved people legally imported from Dominica, 4 August 1818 and also 1819].

T71/495 36-39

[Number of enslaved people] 338(Tot) 183(F) 155(M)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estates  

Peruvian Estate and Henry's Vale Estate. Statement sworn by John McClean, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 326(Tot) 180(F) 146(M)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estates  

Peruvian Estate and Henry's Vale Estate. Statement sworn by John McClean, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 310(Tot) 175(F) 135(M)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estates  

Peruvian Estate and Henry's Vale Estate. Statement sworn by John McClean, manager [36 deaths].

T71/499 26-28

[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot) 180(F) 134(M)  
[Name] Peruvian and Henry's Vale Estates  

Peruvian Estate and Henry's Vale Estate. The property of Elizabeth Whitfield and Frances Whitfield, deceased, and vested in Henry James Ross as trustee. Statement sworn by John George Cox. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 315 enslaved people.

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