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The Rock

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
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
George Walker Esq.
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
George Walker II
1783 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner
George Walker II
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hon. John O. Crewe
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Samuel Withstandley
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
John Withstandley

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4944 (The Rock)
£2,042 18S 4D

Notes

See also records for Four Hills.

Estate Information (8)

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1741
 

Thomas Baxter sold to William Walker of St. Peter, 2 plantations in St. Peter: 1. Four Hills; 2. The Rock.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1758
 

Will of William Walker of St. Peter: bequeathed The Rock to his brother George Walker. There were also bequests to the enslaved and to his overseer’s son.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1793
 

1793 Will of George Walker of St. Peter: bequeathed the Rock to his sister Henrietta Maria Ann Hungerford of England. Her daughter married Brig. Gen. John Crewe.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot) 49(F) 37(M)  
 

Return of Thomas S. Withstandley, Attorney, the property of the Hon. John Crewe.

 
T71/522 393-95
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas S. Withstandley, Attorney, the property of the Hon. John Crewe. Previously 86 enslaved.

 
T71/531 360-61
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Rock  
 

Return of John Withstandley for Thomas S. Withstandley (Attorney), the property of John Crewe. Thomas Withstandley was an invalid hence the return was filed by John Withstandley.

 
T71/538 234
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Withstandley for Thomas S. Withstandley (Attorney), the property of John Crewe. Thomas Withstandley was an invalid hence the return was filed by John Withstandley.

 
T71/542 231
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
 

The return was made by John Withstandley but Thomas Withstandley, an invalid, was the attorney to Crewe.

 
T71/551 210