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Farley Hill or Grenade Hall & Welch Town

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Associated People (11)

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 Jordan
- 1823 [LA] → Owner
Gibbes Walker Jordan
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Owner
Abel Dottin II
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Heir
Samuel Rous Dottin
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Joseph William Jordan
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
James Scott Payne
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Manager
Joseph Mayers
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executor
George Upton Law
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Rev. Gibbes Walker Jordan
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph William Jordan
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Joseph Mayers

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Barbados 5188 (Farley Hill or Grenade Hall & Welch Town)
£5,427 14S 1D

Notes

Grenade Hall & Welch Town (or Welchtown) were closely connected to the Jordan family – who were connected to the Dottin, Battyn & Alleyne families.
Farley Hill – Grenade Hall in St. Peter & St. Andrew was owned, by 1760, by the Dottin family: in that year Abel Dottin of Oxford, England, left 2 Barbados plantations to his son, Abel Dottin.

Welchtown in St. Peter, St. Andrew (and possibly St. Lucy?) was owned, 1674-1689, by Elizabeth Sandiford: 179 acres in St Peter. in 1721, George Sandiford Crowe, son of ex-Governor of Barbados, Mitford Crowe and his wife Orianna Crowe, formerly Orianna Chamberlaine, the widow of Sir Willoughby Chamberlaine and née Orianna Sandiford, spinster of St. Peter. Mitford Crowe and Robert Lowther were both Governors who intermarried with the Barbadian plantocracy. Gov. Atkins and Kendal were also connected by marriage with the families of Walrond and Colleton. This created a conflict of interest for these Governors policy of British Government versus interests of the planters.
In 1725, George Sandiford Crowe sold the plantation to Philip Jackman, 222 acres, £6000; in 1730 Philip Jackman sold to Samuel Osborne. In 1736, Samuel Osborne bequeathed plantation to son Richard Osborne. In 1748 Richard Osborne bequeathed plantation to brother James Osborne, from whom it passed to Agnes Osborne. 1763, Philip Gibbes jnr of St. Peter (later Sir Philip Gibbes, bart) and his wife Agnes Gibbes, née Osborne, sell to Cumberbatch Sober of St. Peter for £10,000, 115 acres, St. Peter, 61 enslaved.

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1783
 

By his will of 1783, Abel Dottin of Oxford, England, left 2 Barbadian plantations: (1) Scotland plantation (Greenland) (2) Grenade Hall plantation in St. Peter to his two sons, Abel Rous Dottin and Samuel Rous Dottin (their mother was Elizabeth Dottin, neé Rous, daughter of President, Hon Samuel Rous owner of Clifton Hall plantation). Abel Rous Dottin had the option of choosing which plantation to inherit.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot) 86(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Welch Town  
 

Return of Joseph William Jordan, Attorney, the property of Joseph Jordan.

 
T71/522 465-69
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot) 45(F) 33(M)  
[Name] Granade Hall  
 

Return of James Scott Payne, his own property.

 
T71/522 496-98
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Welch Town  
 

Return of Joseph William Jordan, Attorney, the property of Joseph Jordan.

 
T71/526 567-71
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Granade Hall  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, Manager, late the property of Gibbes Walker Jordan, deceased, whose estate had no representative. No previous return. Enslaved purchased in Chancery, late the property of Jas. S. Payne, deceased: 81; births: 6; deaths: 4. NB that this return refers only to Grenade Hall.

 
T71/532 24-26
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Grenade Hall  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, Manager, the property of Joseph William Jordan, who has no Attorney. No previous return. The 82 enslaved were bequeathed to Joseph William Jordan by Gibbes Walker Jordan, deceased. NB that this return refers only to Grenade Hall.

 
T71/532 26-29
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given] [Welch Town]  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, Manager, late the property of Joseph Jordan, deceased, who had no representative. Previously 153 enslaved. It is possible that these enslaved had been on a different plantation.

 
T71/532 29
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Welch Town  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, Manager, the property of the estate of Gibbes W. Jordan, deceased, who had no representative. 151 of the enslaved were inherited by the death of Joseph Jordan. There were also 4 births and 4 deaths. The return which followed this (on pp. 33-37) was by Mayers for Gibbes Walker Jordan [junior] and was also for 151 enslaved, bequeathed by Gibbes W. Jordan [senior]. Jordan junior must have been the Rev. G. W. Jordan. NB that this return refers only to Welch Town.

 
T71/532 29-33
1823
[Name] Grenade Hall  
 

Return of George Law, Executor, late the property of James S. Payne, deceased. Zero return; recorded here because previously 79 enslaved. Of the enslaved there were: 3 births; 1 deaths; 81 sold by order of the Court of Chancery.

 
T71/532 63-5
1823
 

By the will of Gibbes Walker Jordan of Portland Place, Middlesex in 1823, (q.v.) Welch Town split off from Grenade Hall, Barbados and inherited by G. W. Jordan's second son, (the Rev.) Gibbes Walker Jordan. Subsequently Welch Town as sold to his brother Joseph William. See the will of G. W. Jordan under his biographical details.

1826
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
[Name] Welch Town  
 

Return of Joseph Mayers, the property of the Reverend Gibbes Walker Jordan. Previously 152 enslaved. NB the subsequent sales to Joseph William Jordan (Rev. Gibbes Walker Jordan's brother) and the distinct returns in 1826.

 
T71/538 285
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] Farley Hill  
 

Return of Joseph William Jordan, his own property.

 
T71/538 278
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph William Jordan, his own property. Previously 83 enslaved. Purchased of Gibbes W. Jordan (his brother): 153; births: 111; deaths: 22.

 
T71/542 291-6
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] Welch Town  
 

Return of Joseph William Jordan, his own property.

 
T71/551 254-5
1836
 

In 1836, Joseph Jordan, brother of Rev. Gibbes Walker Jordan, and both sons of Gibbes Walker Jordan, sold to Richard Inniss & William Lucien Warren on the same day they bought Welchtown from the Rev. Gibbes Walker Jordan. In 1837 Hon. Joseph William Jordan of St. Andrew sold to Richard Inniss and Wm. Lucien Warren of B’dos “Grenade Hall” plantation in St. Peter and St. Andrew, 157 acres, 71 apprentices - £6016 currency. In 1838, William Lucien Warren sold his ½ share of Welchtown and Grenade Hall to Samuel Inniss, brother of Richard. Almost at once the brother sold to Charles St. John, Joseph Lyder Briggs and William Murrell Howard for £42,000.

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