UCL

Little Sion

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1821 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Duncombe Taylor

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 486 (Little Sion (?), Belfast division)
£1,452 17S 5D

Estate Information (3)

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1821
[Name] None given  
 

John Duncombe Taylor registered 268 enslaved people. Inferred to be for a combination of Sion Hill and Little Sion: the enslaved people have been entered under Sion Hill for both estates.

 
T71/247 284-291
1828
[Name] None given  
 

John Duncombe Taylor prop. registered 272 enslaved people. Inferred to be a combination of Little Sion and Sion Hill, for both of which John Duncombe Taylor claimed unsuccessfully for the slave compensation: the enslaved people have been entered under Sion Hill for both estates.

A note in the margin (p. 700) signed J.D. Taylor says: 'This male slave Pierre is returned "coloured" because by the law only two descriptions of slaves are admissible "Black" and "coloured" under the column headed colour. The said slave is in fact a "white negro."

 
T71/249 698-704
1832
[Name] None given  
 

John Duncombe Taylor proprietor. Inferred to be for a combination of Sion Hill and Little Sion: the enslaved people have been entered under Sion Hill for both estates. Pierre was again identified as a 'White negro' [p. 635]

 
T71/250 634-639