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Vineyard / Contented Retreat / Francklins

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1810 [EY] → Joint owner
William Jonathan Francklin [or Franklin]
1810 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Bayley Francklin
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Lee
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Nicholas Russell Garner

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2870 (Vineyard)
£2,239 1S 0D

Estate Information (7)

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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
 

William Jonathan Francklin sold for £9,207 to his brother Joseph Bailey [Bayley] Francklin, both being heirs of Joseph Francklin, deceased, ½ of the Contented Retreat plantation of 191 acres. The land was valued @ £72 per acre; there were 73 enslaved on the estate.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Contented Retreat  
 

Return of Joseph Bayley Francklin, his own property.

 
T71/521 393-96
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Return of Joseph Bayley Franklin, his own property. Previously 110 enslaved.

 
T71/530 71-2
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Return of Joseph Bayley Franklin, his own property. Previously 108 enslaved.

 
T71/536 243-44
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return by Thomas Lee, the joint property of Nicholas R. Garner and himself.

Purchased in Chancery, the property of Jos. B. Franklin: 93; purchased from Miss Elizabeth McGreire [?]: 16; births: 8; deaths: 4; sold: 3.

 
T71/544 302-5
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
 

Return by Thomas Lee, the joint property of Nicholas R. Garner and himself.

 
T71/549 263
1913
[Name] Vineyard  
[Size] 209  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Farmer.

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