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Highland

Barbados | St Thomas

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
1796 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Owner
Jonathan Worrell
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Thomas McIntosh
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Cutting Packer

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2115 (Highland)
£2,773 1S 9D

Estate Information (8)

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1796
 

Jonathan Worrell purchased the Highland estate for £10,000 currency.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Size] 194  
 

Thomas McKintosh or McIntosh had given Jonathan Worrell a mortgage on the estate of £20,000. It appears that McIntosh bought the estate in 1816-1817.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 61(F) 38(M)  
 

Return of Thomas McIntosh, his own property.

 
T71/522 195-7
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Cutting Packer, his own property. Previously 18 enslaved. Changes since 1820: births: 6; bequest of the estate of R. J. Thurbame: 3; purchased of Benony Armstrong: 8; purchased by decree of the Court of Chancery from William Oxley, Master, late the property of Thomas McIntosh: 73; deaths: 7.

 
T71/531 209-11
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John C. Packer, his own property.

 
T71/538 98
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
 

Return of John C. Packer, his own property. Previously 104 enslaved. Changes:
Births: 20; purchased of George Moe: 13; purchased of the estate of William Drake, deceased: 49; purchased of Thomas Halls: 1; deaths: 18; sold to John William Perch: 25; sold to C. Saint John: 8.

 
T71/542 64-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
 

Return of John C. Packer, his own property.

 
T71/551 73-4
1913
[Name] Highland  
[Size] 161  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Mahon.

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