UCL

Richmond & Howard's

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1815 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Other
Archibald Nielson or Neilson

Patrick Kirwan had agreed to buy Richmond and Chapman's & Howard's estates from the assignees of John Henderson and Archibald Nielson or Neilson in 1815. The following year Archibald Nielson or Neilson was party to a transfer of the estate to Edward Ellice and William Holden, assignees of Henderson and Neilson.

1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Other
Nicholas Kirwan

Nicholas Kirwan was the executor of Patrick Kirwan of Antigua, who had agreed to buy Richmond and Chapman's & Howard's estates in Antigua from the assignees of John Henderson and Archibald Neilson (trading as Tod and Co.) in 1815.

1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Buyer
Patrick Kirwan

Patrick Kirwan of Antigua had agreed to buy Richmond and Chapman's & Howard's estates in Antigua from the assignees of John Henderson and Archibald Neilson (trading as Tod and Co.) in 1815. It appears that the transaction was not effected. Compensation for the Richmond and Howard's estate in the 1830s went mainly to the mortgagee Nathaniel Snell Chauncy.

1817 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
William Maxwell MP

William Maxwell had transferred the estate to Edward Ellice and Wm Holden as assignees of the London merchants John Henderson and Archibald Neilson in 1816, and it appeared as the 'trust estate' of William Maxwell in 1817 and 1824.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 397 (Richmond & Howard's)
£4,525 7S 8D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond & Howards  
 

J. Gilchrist, attorney to the trust estates of William Maxwell esq. known by the names of Richmond & Howards

 
T71/245 413-420
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond & Howards  
 

William Gilchrist attorney to William Maxwell Esq. for his estates known by the names of Richmond and Howard.

 
T71/246 167-175
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond and Howard's  
 

William Gilchrist attorney to the trust estate of William Maxwell Esq., Richmond and Howard's

 
T71/248 283-289
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)  
[Name] Richmond & Howards  
 

William Gilchrist attorney to the estates of William Maxwell Esq., Richmond and Howard's

 
T71/249 490-496
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 313(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Gilchrist attorney to the estates of William Maxwell Esq., proprietor.

 
T71/250 453-459