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Collins or Collyns

Barbados | St Peter

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Associated People (2)

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
1794 [EA] - 1842 [LA] → Owner
William Hinds
1842 [EA] - 1847 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Maxwell Hinds

In his will proved 1847 Samuel M. Hinds recorded the legacy of the Collyns estate to him by his uncle William Hinds. He ordered his trustees to sell the estate for the benefit of his wife.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4790 (Collyns)
£4,274 3S 11D

Notes

The Collins or Collyns estate was in St. Peter & St. Lucy. Owned by the Collins family from 1674. In 1680 it was 50 acres in St Lucy and 12 acres in St Peter. The Hinds family acquired the estate by 1743 and retained ownership until 1871. William Hinds appears to have been the owner from 1794 to 1842; his son, the Hon. Samuel Hinds owned it until his death in 1848; 'Mrs Hinds' owned it until 1871.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1743
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Collins  
[Size] 86  
 

In 1743, William Collins of St. Peter, son and heir of Samuel Collins, sold to Samuel Hinds of St. Lucy for £4,000, 86 acres in St. Lucy and St. Peter with 53 enslaved people.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1794
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Collins  
[Size] 148  
 

In 1794 Samuel O. Hinds, the elder, of St. Peter sold for £11,500 to his son, William Hinds, the Collins plantation and enslaved people in St. Lucy and St. Peter: 148 acres, including the dwelling house, windmill, watermill, cornmill, boiling house and 72 enslaved people.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot) 67(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Collynns  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. Return filed in St Lucy rather than St Peter.

 
T71/522 629-32
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Collyns  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. Previously 147 enslaved.

 
T71/532 139-40
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property. Previously 159 enslaved.

 
T71/537 266-67
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/542 278-9
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/548 354-55
1913
[Name] Collyns  
[Size] 198  
 

Listed in St Lucy, property of Gibbons.

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