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Pine Plantation

Barbados | St Michael

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
- 1806 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Shepard (or Shepherd) Waith
1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Waith

It is possible that this was Thomas Lewis Waith, the son of Thomas Shephard Waith.

1806 [EA] - 1806 [LA] → Executor
Joseph Mayers
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph William Waith

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 119 (Pine Plantation)
£3,398 7S 8D

Notes

For the subsequent ownership, and claims to compensation, see the notes on the claim Barbados 119 (Pine Plantation).

Estate Information (8)

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1806
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot) 85(F) 85(M)  
[Size] 274  
 

Inventory of Thomas Shepard Waith. Executors: Joseph Mayers and Thomas Waith. Dated: 1 February 1806.
Total enslaved: Men: 45, Women: 60, Boys: 40, Girls: 25.
Inventory also included: Horses: 3, Cattle: 54, Sheep: 33, Hogs: 20. (35 cattle+10 young oxen+4 young bulls+5 young heifers; sheep and goats counted together).
Value of enslaved: £9,640 0 0d.
By group: Men: £3,491; Women: £3,294; Boys: £2,095; Girls: £760.
Total estate value: £24,288 10 0d.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot) 83(F) 72(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Though no estate name given this was almost certainly the Pine plantation. Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property. The employments of the 155 enslaved were in the following broad categories: domestic: 21; field and agricultural: 92; tradesmen and apprentices: 15; no employment (adults): 6; no employment (children): 21.
Note that there is no evidence from the 1817 Register that this was a sugar producing plantation though it was clearly a fairly substantial agricultural estate.

 
T71/520 552-6
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 73(F) 72(M)  
 

Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property.
NB that the 1820 Return did not include totals. However, the changes were:
Deaths: 24 (Of which 5 recorded as both births and deaths); Sold: 3. Total decrease: 27
Births (excluding those also recorded as deaths): 7. (Total increases: 7)
Total from previous return: 138.
Net total of enslaved: 145.

Note too that 3 of the enslaved were "held in right of my wife" though all 3 were recorded as deaths.

 
T71/524 666-70
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property. Previously 144 enslaved. But NB that the total does not tally with the 1820 Return where it is calculated as 145.

 
T71/529 595-6
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property.

 
T71/535 206
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property.

 
T71/541 275
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph William Waith, his own property. Previously 161 enslaved; see also Mary A. M. Waith (9 enslaved), John H. Waith (11), James S. Waith (6) on p. 244

 
T71/548 243-4
1913
[Name] Pine  
[Size] 452  
 

Listed in St Michael, property of Lynch.

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