UCL

Cumberland

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
1812 [SY] - → Previous owner
John Francis Grant
1812 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Richard Rees

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 634 (Cumberland)
£3,170 18S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1812
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] Cumberland  
 

By a deed of 26/08/1812, Richard Rees purchased the Cumberland estate with 106 enslaved people (including children) for £250 at a sale by the Provost Marshal William Alexander. The estate had belonged to John Francis Grant: given the purchase price the estate must have been heavily encumbered with debt.

 
Deed Book 1812, British Library, EAP688/1/1/22, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-22 pp. 41-45
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Richard Rees as owner. 1 runaway

 
T71/493 301-303
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 59(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Richard Rees as owner [8 enslaved people purchased from John Dalzell and Co; 44 deaths].

 
T71/495 149-150
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot) 60(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Richard Rees [enslaved people purchased at Marshal's sale, formerly property of the late George Young, of John Cooke, of George Powell, of Bessy Haffy and from the estate of the late A H Miller, deceased].

 
T71/497 109
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot) 60(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Richard Rees [16 deaths; 6 births, 7 enslaved people purchased from the estate of Mrs Miller, deceased and 3 enslaved people from Edward Jarvis Rose].

 
T71/497 116-117
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 52(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Richard Rees [16 deaths; 6 births, 7 enslaved people purchased from the estate of Mrs Miller, deceased and 3 from Edward Jarvis Rose].

 
T71/499 94-95
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot) 52(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Cumberland Estate  
 

Cumberland Estate. The property of Richard Rees. Statement sworn by himself. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 107 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 145-146