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Rock Dundo, Small Hope & Carleton (or Carlton)

Barbados | St James

Estate Details

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
- 1785 [EY] → Owner
Benjamin Bostock
1790 [SY] - 1814 [EY] → Owner
William Prescod
1785 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Previous owner
Benjamin Bostock of Philadelphia

In his will made and proved in 1793, Benjamin Bostock left to to his son, Benjamin James his sugar-work plantation called Grays or Yorkshire in Christ Church (Barbados) with the slaves, cattle, stock etc. thereon and also the moneys then due to him from William Prescod [for the unpaid purchase money of Carlton plantation which he had sold him].

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Hinds Prescod
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
John Gay Goding

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4306 (Rock Dundo, Small Hope & Carleton)
£4,979 2S 6D

Notes

The Scott family owned part of what was to become the Carleton plantation between 1679 and 1739. In 1739 part of their estate was sold to Edward Carleton. At that point it was 186 acres and there were 96 enslaved people on it. The Carleton family appear to have owned it until at least 1765.

Sources

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

Estate Information (9)

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1785
 

By 1785 the owner was Benjamin Bostock (d. 1785); and in 1788 there were 59 enslaved people on 229 acres. (Hughes-Queree citing UK National Archives, CO 28/62, p. 251.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1790
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Size] 219  
 

Benjamin Bostock of St. Michael, grandson and heir of Benjamin Bostock deceased, sold the Carleton plantation to William Prescod, lately of Barbados but now of England for £12,270.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1812
 

John Randal Phillips and Benjamin James Bostock of Philadelphia, executors of the will of Benjamin Bostock deceased, released William Prescod from mortgage of £2,291 owed since 1790 on the purchase price of Carleton.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot) 116(F) 96(M)  
[Size] 557  
 

Inventory of William Prescod. Executors: William Hinds Prescod and John Gay Goding. Dated: 19 January 1815.
Total enslaved: Men: 62, Women: 72, Boys: 34, Girls: 44.
This was made up of:
Rock Dundo: Men: 24, Women: 26, Boys: 8, Girls: 17.
Small Hopes: Men: 17, Women: 26, Boys: 16, Girls: 19.
Carleton (or Carlton): Men: 21, Women: 20, Boys: 10, Girls: 8.

Value of the enslaved:
Rock Dundo: £6,350 0 0d.
Small Hopes: £6,380 0 0d.
Carleton: £4,540 0 0d.
Total value of enslaved: £17,270 0 0d.

Total estate value: £36,298 10 0d (all three estates).

Acreage: refers to Rock Dundo, Small Hope & Carleton. Cane Lands: 204 acres; Provision: 162 acres; Waste Gully Lands: 191 acres.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot) 114(F) 95(M)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/522 74-80
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod. Previously 222 enslaved.

 
T71/531 298-99
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Rock Dundo, Small Hope and Carlton  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod. Previously 232 enslaved. All changes accounted for by births (33) and deaths (15).

 
T71/538 171-2
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot)  
[Name] Rock Dundo  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/542 180-81
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot)  
[Name] Rock Dundo, Small Hope and Carlton  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/551 176-7