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Mangrove

Barbados | St Peter

Estate Details

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Associated People (7)

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
- 1834 [LA] → Executrix
Mary Skeete (née Bishop)
- 1793 [LA] → Owner
John Brathwaite Skeete senior
- 1788 [LA] → Owner
Elizabeth Skeete
1788 [EA] - 1789 [LA] → Executor
John Brathwaite Skeete senior
1793 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Executrix
Agness Skeete (née Bishop)
1793 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
Hon. John Brathwaite Skeete
1817 [EA] - → Attorney and Manager
Edward Skeete

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4956 (Mangrove)
£3,483 17S 0D

Notes

For the details of the inventories of 1788, 1793 and 1834, click here. The land on which the Mangrove estate was developed was originally owned by the Clinkett family between 1674 and 1680 (including Sarah Clinkett by 1680). By 1712 it was in the hands of Thomas Rollstone and the Rollstone family until 1731 when it was sold to Francis Skeete.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (9)

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1777
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Size] 230  
 

Marriage settlement: Francis Skeete [descendant of Francis Skeete, owner in 1731?] married Elizabeth Hothersall. The plantation was of Elizabeth Skeete, widow, mother of Francis Skeete. Francis Skeete’s grand-daughter, Jane Abel Alleyne was the wife from 1786 of Sir John Gay Alleyne.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1788
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot) 25(F) 39(M)  
[Size] 229  
 

Inventory of Elizabeth Skeete, deceased. Executor: John Brathwaite Skeete. Taken 14 November 1788. Received 21 January 1789.
For further detail see the summary of the inventories of 1788, 1793 and 1834 here.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories.
1793
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot) 53(F) 38(M)  
[Size] 197  
 

Inventory of John Brathwaite Skeete, deceased. Executrix: Mrs Agnes Skeete. Dated: 31 December 1793.
Total enslaved: Men: 38, Women: 53.
The men included Carter: 1; Mill man: 1; Boiler: 1; Mason: 3; Groom: 1; House steward: 2; Cook: 1; "Dangerously ill with small pox": 1; With Mrs F. Skeete: 2.
The women included 1 Cook.
The total value of the enslaved given as: £6,175. The highest valued male enslaved were 3 at £150 each; the highest female: 2 at £100 each.

Total value of the land, house etc. was: £11,512 12 6d.
The size of the estate was 196 acres, 3 rood, 14 perch.

Total value of the estate (land, house, enslaved): £17,687 12 6d.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 82(F) 65(M)  
 

Return of Edward Skeete, Attorney and Manager, the property of the Hon. John Brathwaite Skeete.

 
T71/522 522-26
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
 

Return of John Brathwaite Skeete, his own property. Previously 139 enslaved.

 
T71/532 72
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
 

Return of the Hon. John B. Skeete, his own property. Previously 138 enslaved.

 
T71/538 310
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
 

Return of John B. Skeete, his own property.

 
T71/542 327
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
 

Return of John B. Skeete, his own property.

 
T71/551 287
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot) 85(F) 69(M)  
[Size] 212  
 

Inventory of John Brathwaite Skeete. Executrix: Mrs Mary Skeete. Dated: 1834.
Total enslaved: Men: 42, Women: 49, Boys: 27, Girls: 36.

The estate's size was 212 acres and 4 perches and lay in the parishes of St Peter, St Andrew and St James.
Value of enslaved: £9,240 (valued at average of £60 per head).
Total estate value: £24,046 10 0d.

The combined value of the Rock Hall (q.v.) and Mangrove estates was £60,602 10 0d.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories.