UCL

Crabb's Estate

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
1727 [SY] - 1734 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
Col. Valentine Morris
1734 [SY] - 1743 [EY] → Owner
Col. Valentine Morris
1743 [SY] - 1749 [EY] → Owner
Valentine Morris II
1749 [SY] - → Trust beneficiary
Valentine Morris II

Valentine Morris placed the Crabbs estate in trust as part of his marriage settlement with Mary Mordaunt, to secure her £400 p.a. after his death. The estate had been leased with Martin's to James Gordon in 1739 for £1100 p.a.

- 1739 [EY] → Lessee
James Gordon of Antigua and Moor Place, 9th of Knockespock
- 1824 [LA] → Owner
Rev. James Coull
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Dr Thomas Coull

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 321 (Crabb's Estate)
£2,539 7S 6D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 262(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

James Coull prop. Inferred to be Crabb's and Hermitage in combination, which in 1824 were shown separately.

 
T71/245 372-378
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Crabb's  
 

James Coull proprietor. The estate is identified as Crabb's in the total on p. 26.

 
T71/247 22-26
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Crabb's  
 

James Coull proprietor. 'Crabb's' is noted down the left hand side of p. 152, the first of two estates identified under the same entry. The other is Hermitage.

 
T71/248 152-155
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 273(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Coull prop. 250 of the enslaved were by purchase from James Coull. It is inferred that the registration was for Crabb's and Hermitage: all the enslaved people are recorded here.

 
T71/249 152-158
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 280(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Coull prop. by his atty Samuel L. Bridges. 'All being within this island save and except Diana female, black, twenty years who is now in England.' It is inferred that the registration was for Crabb's and Hermitage: all the enslaved people are recorded here.

 
T71/250 141-148