Norton's Valley Estate

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
- 1771 [EY] → Owner

Inferred to have been among the unnamed estates on Tortola left by John Purcell to his son (also John).

1795 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Joint owner
1795 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Heir
1818 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,244 16S 5D

Estate Information (6)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot) 48(F) 52(M)  
 

Owner: Heirs of John Purcell deceased or in the possession of George Davis Dix, late attorney to the deceased; returned by Robert Hutton; Tortola,

 
T 71/370 219-222
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot) 45(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Nortons Valley Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of John Purcell deceased and in the possession of William Cox Roberts as attorney and Receiver in Chancery; Tortola

 
T 71/371 391-392
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 40(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Norton's Valley Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of John Purcell Esquire deceased in the lawful possession of the Honorable John Middleton Donovan and William Cox Robertson Esquire as attorneys and joint receivers and managers in Chancery; 4 enslaved people were sold on 20 Nov. 1824 'under execution for unpaid parochial and Colonial Taxes'; returned by William Lenney Johnson, planter of the Virgin Islands.

 
T 71/372 603-604
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot) 38(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Norton's Valley Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of John Purcell Esq. deceased in the lawful possession of William Rogers Isaacs as receiver; returned by William Richardson as manager

 
T 71/373 75-78
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 41(F) 43(M)  
[Name] Norton Valley Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of John Purcell deceased in the lawful possession of William Rogers Isaacs as Receiver in Chancery; returned by William Richardson as manager; Tortola,

 
T 71/374 27-30
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 50(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Nortons Valley Estate  
 

Return of Benjamin Simmons and Margaret Norton Purcell, owners; returned by attorney Thomas Bates; 84 of the 86 enslaved on the increase list were taken over from William Rogers Isaacs in Nov 1832

 
T 71/375 269