UCL

Cove Estate

Montserrat

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1817 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
Dudley Semper senior

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 219 (Cove Estate)
£3,997 7S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dudley Semper, owner; notes that three absent enslaved people are not included in the total given. This appears to be Cove Estate.

 
T 71/447 361-368
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dudley Semper, owner; notes that the total did not include three enslaved people who had absconded. This appears to be Cove Estate.

 
T 71/448 192-199
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dudley Semper, owner; 17 enslaved people were purchased at Marshals Sale and one at Treasurer's Sale, formerly the property of Sarah Dowdy; 5 other enslaved people were purchased from Ann Shoy (2), John Dowdy (1), Henry Dyett (1), and Frances Skerrett (1); 34 enslaved people on the estate died between 1821 and 1824. The total does not include Charles Dyatt, Simon, Abraham, and Tom who had all absconded from the island. This appears to be Cove Estate.

 
T 71/449 122-128
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dudley Semper Esquire, owner; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney; 8 of the enslaved people listed were acquired 'by purchase at Marshals sale the property of the late Thomas Hill'; the total of enslaved people given does not include 'Charles Dyett, a coloured man about the age of 51 years and 5 months ... who absconded in about 1806 or 7 and who, this deponent has been informed and verily believes, went to America; Simon, a black man about 46 years and 5 months ... who absconded from the said Dudley Semper on or about 1807 in the island of Antigua; Abraham, a black man aged 31 years and 5 months ... who was sent to New York in the Brig Friendship ... [around] May 1817; and Tom, a black man now 39 years and 11 months..., who this deponent suspects absconded [around] September 1822 in the schooner Mary, Captain James Tate, bound to America'. This appears to be Cove Estate.

 
T 71/450 227-234
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dudley Semper Esquire, owner; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney. Total of enslaved people given in the return does not include 4 enslaved men: 'Charles Dyett, a coloured man about the age of 55 ... who absconded about 1806 or 7 and who, this deponent has been informed and virily believes, went to America; Simon, a black man about 50 ... who absconded from the said Dudley Semper on or about 1807 in the island of Antigua; Abraham, a black man aged 35 ... who was sent to New York in the Brig Friendship ... [around] May 1817; and Tom, a black man now 41..., who this deponent suspects absconded [around] September 1822 in the schooner Mary, Captain James Tate, bound for America'. This appears to be Cove Estate.

 
T 71/451 174-181