UCL

Comfort Hall

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
- 1805 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Edwards of Comfort Hall
- 1771 [LA] → Joint owner
George Crump

Possible identification of Comfort Hall as the estate previously known as Crump's in St Philips Parish

1805 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Spencer Edwards

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 60 (Comfort Hall)
£2,468 11S 2D

Notes

Inferred association with 1817 and 1824 Slave Registers. A group of estates - Crumps Windward, Crumps Mountain and Crumps Stock - were conveyed to Andrew Newton of London in 1770 by Nathaniel and George Crump. It is possible that one or more of these estates formed the core of what became Comfort Hall. According to Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I p. 186, '"Crumps" in St Philips Parish, of 514 acres, is now known as Comfort Hall.'

Sources

Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College M198 '

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Name] None given  
 

John D. Edwards attorney of Thomas S. Edwards proprietor. Thomas Spencer Edwards is identified in full in the sworn confirmation.

 
T71/245 400-404
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Spencer Edwards proprietor. Inferred to be Comfort Hall.

 
T71/247 59-63
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Spencer Edwards proprietor

 
T71/248 230-233
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Spencer Edwards proprietor

 
T71/249 238-241
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Spencer Edwards proprietor

 
T71/250 224-227