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Mount Brevitor

Barbados | St Peter

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Associated People (8)

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 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Leacock Esq.
Previous owner
Richard Parris Pile
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Not known
Nathaniel Jones Pile
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
Reverend John Hamlet Gittens

Attorney to Mrs Joseph Leacock

1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
John Goodridge
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Sarah Goodridge
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Ann Goodridge
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
John Gay Goding

No capacity shown but presumably Attorney.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4957 (Mount Brevitor)
£2,604 2S 10D

Estate Information (5)

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1823
 

Return of Nathaniel J. Pile, capacity not specified, the property of Richard P. Pile, an invalid. Previously 128 enslaved. A zero return. Of the enslaved there were: 5 births; 14 deaths; 24 removed to Haymonds; 95 given up to Rev. John H. Gittens, Attorney to Mrs Joseph Leacock.

 
T71/532 58-61
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
 

Return of John Goodridge, his own property. No previous return. Of the enslaved: purchased of William Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of Richard P. Pile and given up by him to Mrs Joseph Leacock: 94; births: 16; taken from Speights Town: 10; deaths: 4.

 
255-58
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
 

Return of Sarah Goodridge, the joint property of herself and Ann Goodridge. 119 enslaved persons inherited from the late John Goodridge. See also pp. 273-7 for the return of John Gay Goding as Executor of John Goodridge's estate and the bequests to Sarah and Ann Goodridge.

 
T71/542 266-69
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
 
T71/551 244
1913
[Name] Mount Brevitor  
[Size] 243  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Skinner and Perkins.

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