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Frye's or Fry'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
- 1764 [EY] → Owner
Rowland Frye of Wallington

By a deed of 16/03/1764 Rowland Frye of Wallington sold two plantation of 420 acres in total (one of 320 acres in St Philip and one called Frye's Pastures of 100 acres in St Paul) with 177 enslaved people for £20,000 to Samuel Redhead.

1764 [EA] - 1785 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Redhead
1785 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
George Redhead I
1788 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
James Trecothick née Ivers
1788 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Francis Thwaites Esq.
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
George Francis Redhead

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 81 (Frye's or Fry's)
£1,499 10S 11D

Estate Information (6)

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1788
[Mortgage] 00/00/00001788  
 

The mortgage by George and Margaret Redhead covered both Cusack's now George Redhead of 340 acres and Frye's with 87 enslaved people. Both estates were in St Philip.

 
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol.III p. 55
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Fryes  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby Receiver under the orders of the Court of Chancery of Antigua. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to 'the estate of George Redhead Esq. (Frye's)'.

 
T71/245 147-149
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Frye's  
 

Samuel Warner receiver under the court of Chancery for the estate of George Redhead (Fryes)

 
T71/246 372-374
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] Frye's  
 

Samuel Warner receiver under the court of Chancery for the estate of George Redhead called Fryes. He also registered in an immediately following entry a further 38 people with an identical heading, possibly because they had been the property of George Redhead senior (deceased in 1824) at the time of the previous registration.

 
T71/248 809-811
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Frye's  
 

Samuel Warner receiver under the court of Chancery for the estate of George Redhead called Fryes. He also registered in an immediately following entry a further 37 people with an identical heading.

 
T71/249 623-624
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Frye's  
 

John W.H. Gore agent to George W. Clarke atty to George Redhead Frye's. Gore also registered a further 33 people in the same capacity [pp. 572-573].

 
T71/250 571-572