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Byde Mill

Barbados | St John

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Associated People (6)

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
- 1773 [LA] → Previous owner
Sir Stephen Anderson 3rd Bart.
1773 [EA] - → Tenant-for-life
Dame Mary Shirley formerly Anderson (née Elsegood)
1777 [EA] - → Other
Rear-Admiral Hon. Thomas Shirley

Lessor with his wife

1777 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Lessee (Estate)
Joshua Steele
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Lessee (Enslaved)
Stephen Walcott
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Matthew W. Cromartie

Cromartie filed the return in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register 'on behalf of the Heirs in Remainder of Anderson, deceased'.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3777 (Byde Mill)
£1,582 13S 7D

Notes

The first evidence of the Byde Mill planation appears to have been in 1670 when Richard Bendyshe leased it to Thomas Batson: it was of 360 acres with 125 enslaved people and 8 bond (indentured) servants. In 1717 it was bequeathed by Sir Henry Bendyshe to his nephew Henry Roberts. Between 1717 and 1746 the ownership of the plantation descended through 2 generations of sons of the Roberts family. In 1746 it came into the hands of Sir Stephen Anderson of England as committee of Henry Roberts who had been declared a lunatic.

Note that the plantation straddled the parishes of St. George, St. John and St. Philip.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1752
[Name] Byde Mill  
 

Indentures of 21/05/1752 show the apparent sale of Byde Mill - formerly the estate of Henry Bendysh - by Sir Stephen Anderson to Edward and Arthur Radcliffe. [S.J. and P.O. Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College (1994) p. 216]. The sale must have been void or rescinded since the Anderson family appear as owners later.

1777
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Size] 320  
 

Lease of Byde Mill House plantation: Admiral Thomas Shirley of Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, and his wife Dame Mary Shirley, widow of Sir Stephen Anderson deceased of Park Street, Middlesex, England and life tenant of Byde Mill by Sir Stephen Anderson’s will. To Joshua Steele of Hanover Square, Middlesex, England, Dame Mary Shirley being empowered to lease the plantation for a period not exceeding 21 years. Rental £375 sterling per annum: 320 acres of which 163 was caneland, 26 acres tenantry, 129 acres of gully wasteland and roads, 102 enslaved valued at £4,600, with a top value male slave £90, female £65, boys and girls £50. One of the enslaved was Anna Slatia, by whom Steele had 2 children.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 46(F) 56(M)  
 

Return of Stephen Walcott, the property of the Heirs in Remainder of Sir Stephen Anderson, deceased, which slaves are under Lease to Stephen Walcott. Note that this was a distinct return from that given on pp. 705-7 where Walcott given as the owner. It is not clear why there were two returns. The lists of the enslaved refer to different groups of people.

 
T71/521 559-61
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot) 35(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Byde Mill  
 

Return of Stephen Walcott, his own property. Note that this was a distinct return from that given on pp. 559-61. It is not clear why there were two returns. The lists of the enslaved refer to different groups of people.

 
T71/521 705-7
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Stephen Walcott, the property of the Heirs in Remainder of Sir Stephen Anderson, which slaves are under Lease to Stephen Walcott. Numbers of enslaved included: 'Taken over by Stephen Walcott for the difference of Appraisement in his favor': 32. Previously 105 enslaved.

 
T71/530 185-7
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

'Return of Stephen Walcott of slaves the property of the Heirs in Remainder of Sir Stephen Anderson and which slaves are under Lease to the said Stephen Walcott'. Previously 74 enslaved.

 
T71/536 351
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

'Return of Stephen Walcott of slaves the property of the Heirs in Remainder of Sir Stephen Anderson and which slaves are under Lease to the said Stephen Walcott'.

 
T71/543 124
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
 

Return (by Matthew W. Cromartie) on behalf of the Heirs in Remainder of Anderson, deceased.

 
T71/550 139