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Orange Hill [Dears]

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Associated People (6)

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
1815 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Previous owner
Charles Kyd Bishop senior
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executrix
Mercy Pike Bishop (née Culpeper)
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
James Pairman
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
William Alleyne Culpeper II
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Charles Kyd Bishop
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Joseph Mayers

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4961 (Orange Hill)
£3,011 18S 10D
See also Barbados 4963 (Orange Hill) (award to Mercy Pike Bishop, mother of Charles Kyd Bishop) for 19 enslaved.

Notes

See also returns by Mercy Pike Bishop, also for the Orange Hill estate. She appears to have owned a part of the estate owned by Charles Kyd Bishop (q.v.) See biog notes on Mercy Pike Bishop.

Estate Information (7)

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1815
[Size] 212  
 

In 1815 George Williams and his wife Elizabeth conveyed Dear’s plantation to Thomas Williams for 1 year and then to Charles Kyd Bishop for £25,710.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot) 64(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Dears  
 

Return of Mercy Pike Bishop, Executrix, the property of Charles Kyd Bishop, deceased.

 
T71/522 383-86
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
 

Return of James Pairman, Attorney, the property of the Estate of Charles Kyd Bishop, deceased, to whom Mercy Pike Bishop is qualified Executrix and to whom he is Attorney. Note that the total in 1820 was 131 rather than the 132 given in 1823 as the previous total.

 
T71/526 460-63
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
 

Return of James Pairman, Attorney, the property of the Estate of Charles K. Bishop, deceased. Pairman was Attorney to Mercy Pike Bishop, Executrix. Previously 132 enslaved.

 
T71/531 325-26
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of James Pairman, the property of the Estate of Charles K. Bishop, deceased. Pairman was Attorney to Mercy Pike Bishop, Executrix. By 1829 the property had passed to Charles Kyd Bishop junior.

See also the Return in 1829 of James Pairman, Attorney, the property of Mercy Pike Bishop.

 
T71/538 211-12
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
 

Return of William A. Culpeper, Attorney, the property of Charles Kyd Bishop.

 
T71/542 217-18
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, Attorney, the property of Charles Kyd Bishop.

 
T71/551 204