UCL

Mount Poyer

Barbados | St Lucy

Estate Details

View in context on full map

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
1792 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Owner
John Poyer

Shown as 'General John Poyer', selling the estate in 1792.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Whitfoot Greaves
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Hinds

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4765 ([Mount Poyer])
£3,567 6S 8D

Notes

The land was originally owned by the Poyer family – hence the name – from 1680 when Abel Poyer owned 63 acres, until 1792 when General John Poyer sold the plantation to Thomas Payne.

Sources

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

Estate Information (9)

What is this?

1792
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Size] 166  
 

Gen. John Poyer of St. Lucy sold Mount Poyer to Thomas Payne of St. John for £13,170.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1795
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Size] 166  
 

Thomas Payne of St. Lucy sold Mount Poyer to Edward Greaves of St. Lucy for £12,900.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot) 83(F) 79(M)  
 

Return of Thomas Whitfoot Greaves, his own property.

 
T71/522 597-601
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas Whitfoot Greaves, his own property. Previously 120 enslaved. See also the return of William Hinds for the Mount Poyer estate in 1826 and the purchase of 103 enslaved, via Chancery, from the estate of the deceased Greaves.

 
T71/532 128
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Size] 193  
 

Chancery Court Sale of Mount Poyer, the property of Thomas Whitfoot Greaves.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. No previous return. Purchased of William Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of Thomas W. Greaves, deceased: 103; purchased of Charles W. Greaves: 26; births: 14; transferred to Spring Hall [also owned by Hinds]: 1; deaths: 2.

 
T71/537 262-66
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/545 56-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/548 357-8
1913
[Name] Mount Poyer  
[Size] 205  
 

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.