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River plantation

Barbados | St Philip

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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Crookenden
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Hon. Colonel Joshua Bushell Nurse
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
William Murrell Howard

The 1832 Register lists Wm. M. Howard as the Attorney; this was almost certainly William Murrell Howard.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2868 (River Plantation)
£5,351 19S 3D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot) 132(F) 90(M)  
 

Return of Joshua Bushell Nurse, Attorney, the property of Thomas Crookenden.

 
T71/521 367-72
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of William M. Howard, Attorney, the property of Thomas Crookenden. Previously 217 enslaved.

 
T71/530 49-50
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Murrell Howard, Attorney, the property of Thomas Crookenden. Previously 208 enslaved.

 
T71/536 227-8
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Murrell Howard, Attorney, the property of Thomas Crookenden.

 
T71/544 234-5
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Murrell Howard, Attorney, the property of Thomas Crookenden.

 
T71/549 218-19
1913
[Name] River  
[Size] 405  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Farmer.

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