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Grove

Barbados | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1781 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Owner
Benjamin Alleyne Cox
1803 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Yard
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
John Wood junior

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3879 (Groves)
£1,895 6S 8D

Estate Information (9)

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1803
 

By his will of 1803, Benjamin Alleyne Cox of St. Michael bequeathed 3 plantations to his nephew Thomas Yard, son of his sister Elvira Yard, neé Cox: (1) Forster Hall; (2) Grove in St. George; (3) Cottage in St. George.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot) 45(F) 43(M)  
[Name] Groves  
 

Return of John Wood, Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/520 822-25
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Size] 156  
 

Acreage was given as 155¾. The Balance of Accounts at end of 1817 valued the estate at £2,994 13 5¼d. Stock was listed as 56 cattle, 5 horses, 4 asses.

 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
 

Stock was listed as 49 cattle, 7 horses, 8 asses.

 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] Groves  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard. Previously 91 enslaved.

 
T71/531 130-31
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/538 26-27
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/543 119
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/550 134