UCL

Paynters

Antigua

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
- 1779 [EY] → Owner
William Gunthorpe of Paddington
1821 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Kean Brown Osborn

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 356 (Painters)
£1,405 6S 8D

Estate Information (3)

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1779
[Name] Painters  
 

The will of William Gunthorpe of Paddington proved 05/10/1779 records an indenture of 1746 whereby William Gunthorpe created a term of 99 years in 'a plantation called Painters' to raise portions for his younger children, not to exceed £2500 if one, £4000 if more than one.

 
Vere Langford Oliver 'History of Antigua' Vol II p. 39
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney of Kean B. Osborn (absent in England) prop. Inferred to be Painters. A corresponding entry in 1821 [T71/246 pp. 557-563] for Gunthorpe's shows 103 enslaved people had been sold to Kean B. Osborn, 'the number transferred with Paynter's.' It appears therefore that Kean Brown Osborn bought Painters or Paynters from the Gunthorpe family who had held it since 1735 (and in 1789 conveyed it to James Gordon) according Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol II pp. 38-39.

 
T71/246 535-537
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Kean B. Osborn proprietor. The estate(s) is/are not named but in his sworn statement Osborn referred to 'Honey and Congo Sally absconded from Paynters prior to the purchase of that estate by me.' It seems likely that this entry covers both Orange Valley and Painters or Paynters which he appears to have purchased before the 1821 registration.

 
T71/248 616-620