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Bright Hall & Armstrong Plantation

Barbados | St Lucy

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Howard Griffith junior
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
William Howard Griffith

This is probably William Howard Griffith who was awarded for 5 enslaved (Barbados 4706).

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 5228 (Bright Hall & Armstrong Plantation)
£3,272 3S 11D
Note that the claim was by Howard Griffith.

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot) 20(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Armstrongs  
 

Return of William H. Griffith, his own property. Note that this was a return for only Armstrongs: the relation between it and Bright Hall is not clear.

 
T71/522 604-5
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 72(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Armstrongs  
 

Return of Howard Griffith jun., his own property. Note that this is a second and distinct return for Armstrongs in 1817. It is not clear why there were two returns or which of several possibles this Howard Griffith jun. was.

 
T71/522 619-23
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Return of Howard Griffith, his own property. Previously 133 enslaved people. This has been inferred to be Bright Hall.

 
T71/532 122
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
 

Return of William Howard Griffith, his own property. Previously 32 enslaved.

 
T71/532 125
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
 

Return of William Howard Griffith, his own property. Previously 38 enslaved.

 
T71/537 248
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
 

Return of William H. Griffith, his own property.

 
T71/545 38
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Return of Howard Griffith, his own property. This has been inferred to be Bright Hall.

 
T71/548 350-351
1913
[Name] Bright Hall  
[Size] 177  
 

Listed in St Lucy, property of Boyce.

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