UCL

Crosbie Estate, Dickenson Bay

Antigua

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
- 1814 [EY] → Owner
John Crosbie
- 1798 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
General William Crosbie
1821 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Heir-at-law
General John Gustavus Crosbie

Although the path to ownership is not fully clear, it appears that Crosbies had belonged to John Crosbie, uncle of Sir John Gustavus Crosbie, and that William Crosbie (d. c. 1798), a second uncle of Sir John Gustavus Crosbie, was the mortgagee of his brother's estate.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 26 (Crosbie Estate, Dickenson Bay)
£772 1S 7D

Notes

Inferred association with entry in 1817 Slave Register

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Lightbourn Darrell acting exor and trustee under the will of the late John Crosbie proprietor

 
T71/245 57-59
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Crosbie's  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of General John Gustavus Crosbie the heir at law and devisee of the late General William Crosbie and of William Manning Esq., MP receiver of the rents issues and profits of the estate of the said late General William Crosbie who was the mortgagee of the plantation of the late John Crosbie (Crosbies).

 
T71/247 322-324
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Crosbie's  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of John Gustavus Crosbie the heir at law and devisee of the late General William Crosbie and of William Manning Esq., MP receiver of the rents issues and profits of the estate of the said late General William Crosbie who was the mortgagee of the plantation of the late John Crosbie (Crosbies).

 
T71/248 799-800
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of General John Gustavus Crosbie the heir at law and devisee of the late General William Crosbie and of William Manning Esq., MP receiver of the rents issues and profits of the estate of the said late General William Crosbie who was the mortgagee of the plantation of the late John Crosbie.

 
T71/249 164-165
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Meade Home Daniell attorney of General John Gustavus Crosbie the heir at law and devisee of the late General William Crosbie and of William Manning Esq., MP receiver of the rents issues and profits of the estate of the said late General William Crosbie who was the mortgagee of the plantation of the late John Crosbie.

 
T71/1250 152-153