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Black Bess

Barbados | St Peter

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Associated People (4)

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
1713 [SY] - → Other
Abel Alleyne (1689-1727)

On his marriage in 1713 to Elizabeth Booth, Abel Alleyne purchased from Dame Rosamond Booth, widow of Sir William Booth and Mother of Elizabeth, three plantations in St James, St Peter and St Andrew....Reference to Mayo's Map of Barbados (1717-1721) shows that the plantations in St James and St. Peter were situated about where Sion Hill and Black Bess plantations are to be found in modern maps, and are almost certainly identical with those estates.'

1799 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Richard Clement

Clement owner since 1799 according to Hughes-Queree.

1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
William Sharp

Appears as William Thomas Sharp in 1826

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hampden Clement

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4953 (Black Bess)
£4,165 9S 1D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 95(F) 78(M)  
 

Return of Richard Clement, his own property.

 
T71/522 415-19
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
 

Return of Richard Clement, his own property. Previously 162 enslaved.

 
T71/531 358-60
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the property of Richard Clement. The returning Attorney was given in the Register as William Thomas Sharp. It may be that either this was William Thomas Sharp, the owner of Brewsters and Claybury estates, or that the William Sharp given here is correct (and may have been the same person as William Thomas).

 
T71/538 230-1
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the property of Richard Clement, deceased.

 
T71/542 223-4
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
 

Return of Hampden Clement, his own property.

 
T71/551 212-13
1913
[Name] Black Bess  
[Size] 328  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Parris.

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