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Portland / Scantlebury's

Barbados | St Peter

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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
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
George Upton Law
1823 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Heir
Charlotte McKintock Law
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Creditor
Priscilla Scantlebury spinster
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Creditor
Thomas Daniel
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Creditor
John Gay Goding
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
James Corbin

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4892 (Portland)
£2,322 11S 3D

Notes

Established in 1674 by the Scantlebury family - hence the name - and remained in their possession until at least 1763.

Sources

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

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot) 54(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Scantlebury's  
 

Return of George Law, his own property.

 
T71/522 482-85
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
 

Return of George Law, his own property. Previously 92 enslaved. Note that 7 of the enslaved 'now the property of Charlotte Law'.

 
T71/532 42-3
1825
 

1825: Chancery Court sale: plantation, the property of Charlotte McKintock Law of St. Peter, daughter and heiress of George Upton Law, deceased. The debts on the estate included those to Priscilla Scantelbury, widow, amount unknown, Thomas Daniel £2,000, John Gay Goding £4,200. The plantation was then bought by James Corbin.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of James Corbin, his own property. Previously 8 enslaved. Purchased from William Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of Thomas Law: 86; purchased from William Rogers: 1; births: 7; sales to: Charlotte Law: 1; John William Chandler: 2; deaths: 8.

 
T71/538 219-21
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of James Corbin, his own property.

 
T71/542 226-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
 

Return of James Corbin, his own property.

 
T71/551 221
1913
[Name] Portland  
[Size] 308  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Chandler.

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