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Lemon Arbour

Barbados | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Owner
Francis Bell the elder
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Alleyne Holder
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Jane Haggatt Holder (née Lowe)

The enslaved people whom she owned were given over to J. A. Holder by their marriage.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4280 (Lemon Arbour)
£3,600 7S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1774
[Name] Lemon Arbour  
 

June 1 1774 a prospectus was issued for Francis Bell to raise 121,000 guilders by mortgage of his estates Homes [probably Hornes] and Lemon Arbour (valued at £24,292 or 267,211 guilders), 10 years at %%, surety William Forbes and James Ballmer of London and Balthasar von Homrigh of Amsterdam. Charles Wilson, Anglo-Dutch Commerce & Finance in the Eighteenth Century, p. 184

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 63(F) 39(M)  
[Name] Lemon Harbor  
 

Return of John Alleyne Holder, his own property.

 
T71/521 622-25
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of J. A. Holder, his own property. Previously 94 enslaved. Included 31 purchased from Henry A. Holder. Note that this return made in St George rather in St John.

 
T71/531 51-52
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of J. A. Holder, his own property. Previously 131 enslaved.

 
T71/537 10
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of J. A. Holder, his own property. Previously 137 enslaved. 19 births; 11 inherited by the death of Mary Ann Bell; 18 in right of marriage with Jane H. Lowe; 31 purchased of Edmund Haynes; 16 deaths; 1 sold to James H. Alleyne; 1 sold to Henry A. Holder; 1 in trust to be manumitted; 32 returned to Henry A. Holder in pursuance to a decree of the Court of Chancery. Net = 164 enslaved.

 
T71/543 350-53
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of J. A. Holder, his own property.

 
T71/550 162-3
1913
[Name] Lemon Arbor  
[Size] 170  
 

Listed in St John, property of Sealy.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.