UCL

Escape

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Turing
- 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Nathaniel Snell
- 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Robert Lang
- 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Rt. Hon. Eric Mackay, 7th Lord Reay
1804 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Jonathan Morgan

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 493 (Escape)
£4,386 11S 0D

Estate Information (7)

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1804
[Name] The Escape  
 

In a deed of 1804, the partners in Lang, Turing agreed with Jonathan Morgan that he had previously mortgaged the Escape plantation to them to secure a debt of £10,000, although neither party had the deeds documenting that transaction.

Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18 p. 353

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan as owner. 1 runaway

 
T71/493 224-227
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot) 100(F) 86(M)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan as owner [38 enslaved people recorded as imported from Dominica in schooner Delta, July 1817].

 
T71/495 107-108
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot) 101(F) 82(M)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan.

 
T71/497 77-78
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 103(F) 84(M)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by James Wyllie.

 
T71/497 75-76
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot) 96(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by John Wyllie [24 deaths].

 
T71/499 63
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot) 90(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Escape Estate  
 

Escape Estate. The property of Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by John Wyllie. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 165 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 97-98