UCL

St Clair

Trinidad | Tacarigua and Arouca

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
- 1803 [EY] → Owner
Col. Daniel Henry Shaw

The estate is not mentioned in the will of Daniel Henry Shaw made in 1800 [proved in 1803] but the enslaved people on the estate were registered for the heirs of Daniel Henry Shaw from 1819 onwards and the compensation was paid to his daughter Maria Bridgens (q.v.).

1803 [SY] - → Joint owner
Maria Bridgens

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1456A & B (St Clair)
£1,846 4S 9D

Notes

Connected with the Bridgen claim in the slave compensation records through Maria Shaw.

Estate Information (6)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Saint Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return by Maria Shaw, part owner; owned by the heirs of Col. Shaw deceased.

 
T71/501 555-556
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] Saint Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Isabella S Shaw, for the heirs of Daniel Henry Shaw, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/508 349 - 349 v
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Saint Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Maria Bridgens, for the heirs of the late Colonel Daniel Henry Shaw, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/511 277 - 277 v
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Saint Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Mrs Maria Bridgen late the property of the heirs of Col. Shaw. The slaves had been omitted from the 1825 Registration by 'neglect or default of the attorney of the owner.'

 
T71/515 1965
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot)  
[Name] Saint Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William Power, owner, late the property of Mrs M Bridgens [?].

 
T 71/517 245 v - 246
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] St Clair  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Maria Bridgens, for herself and Richard Bridgens, owners [2 births].

 
T 71/519 309 v - 310