UCL

Yeaman's

Antigua

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
- 1769 [EY] → Owner
Shute Shrimpton Yeamans
1779 [EA] - → Other
Ebenezer Maitland

The London firm of Robert, Robert and Ebenezer Maitland (and its successive iterations) were the 'factors' or consignees for the estate from at least 1779.

1779 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Other
Robert Maitland the elder

The London firm of Robert, Robert and Ebenezer Maitland (and its successive iterations) were the 'factors' or consignees for the estate from at least 1779.

1817 [EA] - 1818 [EY] → Joint owner
David Stoddard Greenough
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
William Hyslop Sumner
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
David Hyslop

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 340 (Yeaman's)
£1,554 5S 5D

Notes

The early years of the Yeamans estate are the subject of AN ANTIGUA PLANTATION, 1769-1818 By Ulrich B. Phillips, in the North Carolina Historical Review )1926

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Athill for himself as proprietor and as attorney to David Stoddart Greenough, David Hyslop and W.H. Sumner, the other proprietors, the estate of the late Shute Shrimpton Yeamans. Tentatively inferred to be Yeamans.

 
T71/245 312-315
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Yeamans  
 

Kean Brown Osborn trustee of the estate of Charles Robertson Esq., Yeamans.

 
T71/248 614-616
1827
[Name] Yeamans  
 

By a deed of 10th July 1827 Charles Robertson and his wife Eliza conveyed Yeamans to D.H. and J.A. Rucker; D.H. and J.A. Rucker in turn assigned the deed of conveyance to Sigismund Rucker & Co., on 5th August 1831, to secure £1000 in advances and £4000 in acceptances. D.H. and J.A. Rucker & Co. were bankrupted on 17/11/1831 still owing Sigismund Rucker some £1500, and Sigismund Rucker & Co. launched a suit, Ex parte Rucker, heard in 1834, in which the issue of whether enslaved people on Antigua were chattel or real estate was considered even as slavery came to an end. Reports of Cases in Bankruptcy in the Court of Review and on Appeal (1835) Vol. III p. 705.

1828
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] Yeamans  
 

Samuel Auchinleck atty to Messrs D.H. and J.A. Rucker proprietors of Yeaman's estate

 
T71/249 626-628
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Auchinleck atty to D.H. and J.A. Rucker & Co. proprietors

 
T71/250 568-570