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Brewsters Estate

Barbados | St Philip

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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
1816 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Best
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
William Turpin
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
John Rycroft Best
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Thomas Sharp

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3125 (Brewsters Estate)
£4,299 8S 9D

Estate Information (8)

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1816
 

Thomas Best the owner by 1816.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot) 129(F) 101(M)  
 

Return of William Turpin, Manager, the property of Thomas Best, who had no legal representative.

 
T71/521 325-30
1817
 

Mortgage: Thomas Best & John Daniel – charged on plantation & assumed by WilliamThomas Sharpe.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John R. Best, Attorney, the property of Thomas Best. Previously 239 enslaved.

 
T71/530 28-9
1825
 

According to Hughes-Queree, Thomas Best of St. George sold Brewster’s to William Thomas Sharpe in 1825. However, the Slave Register returns continue to show Best as the owner until 1829.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas Best, his own property. Previously 256 enslaved. NB that the 1826 Barbados Slave Register shows Brewster's as being in the parish of Christ Church.

 
T71/536 22-3
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
 

NB that the 1829 Barbados Slave Register shows Brewster's as being in the parish of Christ Church.
Return of John Rycroft Best, Attorney, the property of Thomas Best. The return of Best shows nil enslaved because of the following:
Previously 269.
Births: 20; Deaths: 36; Removed to Fairy Valley [also the property of Thomas Best], 6; Removed to Moonshine Hall [also the property of Thomas Best], 127; Sold to William Sharpe, 120. [Sharp was given as the owner in 1832 of the estate in St Philip and was awarded the compensation, though there was a counter-claim from J. R. Best.]

The separate return of William Sharp (T71/544, pp. 168-71) showed 122 enslaved for the Brewsters estate.

 
T71/544 7-14; 168-71
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
 

Return of John Rycroft Best, Attorney, the property of William Thomas Sharp.

 
T71/549 319-21