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Spring Hall

Barbados | St Lucy

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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
1801 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Hinds

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4838 (Spring Hall)
£8,202 14S 7D

Notes

First record of ownership was 1674 when it was owned by the Dowden family. In 1680 it was 233 acres and owned by Thomas Dowden. His heir, Alice Dowden, married Thomas Thornhill. His son and heir was Dowden or Dowding Thornhill. In 1737 his widow, Jane, died. The estate had been in the possession of Edward Bonnett and his wife, Mary Dowden (née Thornhill, the daughter and heir of Dowding Thornhill) with Jane Thornhill as life tenant. In 1737 it was 250 acres and there were 91 enslaved people on the estate. At some point between then and 1781 the estate came into the ownership of Henry Bishop.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1781
 

1781 Will of Henry Bishop: he bequeathed the plantation to his son, William Bishop.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1801
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Size] 291  
 

Will of William Bishop: he bequeathed the plantation to his son, Henry Bishop. Chancery Court sale of Springhall plantation in St. Lucy and Jeaves plantation (Boscobel) in St. Andrew, both the property of Hon. Henry Bishop. Henry Bishop by his will (1781) bequeathed the plantation to his son, William Bishop and a cash bequest of £4,000, charged on the plantation to his son, John Bishop. John Bishop never received the bequest and by his will (1790) bequeathed £3,000 to his daughter Mary Bishop, now Mary Skeete, the wife of John Brathwaite Skeete. John Bishop’s widow married Brigadier General Fitzroy Jeffries Grafton McClean of his Majesty’s armed forces and they acted as executors of the will of John Bishop in the absence from Barbados of John Bishop’s son, Charles Kyde Bishop. Several bequests and other debts were charged on Springhall and Boscobel. Springhall appraised @ £34,915 and Boscobel @ £10,760 (Boscobel was sold to Conrade Pile of Christ Church). Springhall was sold to William Hinds for £30,000: 291 acres appraised @ £78 per acre = £22,698. There were 48 enslaved – highest appraised male £160, female £150, boy & girl £140: the total value of the enslaved given as £11,337. The total debt on 2 plantations (including court costs of £1,639) = £40,508 of which legacies £22,223 and debt to Thomas Daniel £10,800.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot) 133(F) 110(M)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/522 633-39
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. Previously 280 enslaved.

 
T71/532 137-39
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 337(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. Previously 314 enslaved.

 
T71/537 260-62
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 357(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/545 54-56
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/548 352-4
1913
[Name] Spring Hall  
[Size] 384  
 

Listed in St Lucy, property of Fellowes.

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