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Brighton [previously Wiltshires]

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Associated People (5)

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
- 1800 [LA] → Owner
John William Sheafe
1773 [EA] - 1802 [LA] → Previous owner
Philippa Williams (née Wiltshire)

Shown in 1802 as a previous owner, retaining a mortgage of almost £10,000 over the estate in 1773.

1802 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Owner
Arthur Oughterson senior
1804 [EA] - → Owner
John Gittens Archer
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Conrade Pile

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3661 (Brighton)
£2,716 15S 4D

Notes

In 1638 Thomas Wiltshire owned the land in St George and it remained in the hands of the Wiltshire family until the 1770s: in 1775 John William (or Williams) died and the property was in right of his wife, Phillippa Williams, neé Phillippa Wiltshire, daughter of Richard Wiltshire deceased.

The Brighton estate - of 393 acres - was still in the hands of the Pile family in 1913 according to Creole links.

NB there is possibly some confusion over the estate in 1802: Wiltshires was in St Philip.

Sources

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

Estate Information (9)

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1802
 

In 1802 Chancery sale of the plantation. John William Sheafe (who died in 1800) was the owner of Wiltshires. Charges on the plantation were: 1. Sheafe was indebted to Arthur Oughterson of St. Michael, merchant, the sum of £1,766; 2. £9,960 by mortgage of 1773 to previous owner, Phillippa Williams; 3. £10,500 by mortgage of 1798 replacing that of 1773; 4. £600 annuity to Ann Wiltshire; 5. Total encumbrances on the plantation in 1802, including Chancery Court costs of £866, were £20,161. Purchase price paid by Sheafe to Williams in 1773 was £23,250 of which Sheafe paid £2500. Arthur Oughterson bought the plantation at public auction for £18,024: the extent was 215 acres (appraised at £65 per acre) on which there were 60 enslaved people. (Among the men the highest value was £100; among the women, £90, boy and girl £75.) Total value of the enslaved: £3,445.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1804
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Size] 214  
 

In 1804 Arthur Oughterson of St. Michael, merchant, sold (for £21,693), to John Gittens Archer of Christ Church a plantation [presumably Brighton] in St. George.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 74(F) 63(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Conrade Pile, his own property.

 
T71/520 761-4
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Conrade Pile, his own property. Previously 172 enslaved.

 
T71/531 94-5
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Size] 102  
 

In 1825 Conrade Pile took out a mortgage for £3,500 sterling from Barton, Irlam & Higginson. This was for the Brighton plantation (of 29 acres) and also Sedgwicks in St. George (& which adjoined Brighton). [See separate entry for Sedgwicks.] Note also that at this time legacies originating in 1751 remained unpaid. Conrade Pile arranged for payment of these legacies by Barton, Irlam & Higginson.

1826
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Conrade Pile, his own property. Previously returned: 184 enslaved.

 
T71/535 357
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given.]  
 

Return of Conrade Pile, his own property.

 
T71/543 75
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
 

Return of Conrade Pile, his own property.

 
T71/550 85-6
1913
[Name] Brighton  
[Size] 393  
 

Listed in St George, property of Pile.

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