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Belle

Barbados | St Michael

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1784 [SY] - 1795 [EY] → Owner
Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood
1795 [SY] - 1820 [EY] → Owner
Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl Harewood
1776 [EA] - 1784 [LA] → Owner
Daniel Lascelles

The Belle estate was sold to Lascelles and his business partner, William Daling, in 1780.

1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 211 (Belle)
£6,486 1S 6D

Notes

Originally established between 1641 and 1656 by Governor Philip Bell. Between then and 1752 it passed through several hands until coming into the ownership of the Barwick family. In 1752, the Hon. William Barwick of St. Michael sold the Bell to Gedney Clarke of St. Michael.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (11)

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1776
 

In 1776 Daniel Lascelles brought a Chancery Court action against Gendey Clarke and when Clarke died, in the same year, continued the action against his son and heir, Gedney Clarke III. Lascelles sought a court ruling giving the mortgage precedence over the debt to the crown. The Chancery Court ruled that the debt to the Crown took precedence over all private debts and placed the Lascelles debt as the second lien in order of precedence for payment. There were other debts of some £10,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1780
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot)  
[Size] 537  
 

Chancery Court conveyance. Thomas Workman, one of the Masters-in-Chancery, sold to Daniel Lascelles & William Daling, business partners of England, the plantation of Gedney Clarke III, called The Belle, in St. Michael. Gedney Clarke I died, 1764, in debt to Daniel Lascelles. In his will Gedney Clarke I named his son, Gedney Clarke II as his heir. In 1770 Gedney Clarke II confirmed his father’s debts to Lascelles and incurred further debts on his own account. These debts, totaling £50,000 were secured by a mortgage, Clarke to Lascelles, on The Belle. In 1774 Hon Gedney Clarke III, Collector of Customs was found short in his accounts as Collector by £16,200 sterling. The Attorney General, William Moore, filed a writ in the Exchequer Court and obtained a mortgage against the plantations of Gedney Clarke II.

At a Chancery Court auction in 1780, Daniel Lascelles bought the plantation for £23,000.

1784
 

Will of Daniel Lascelles which bequeathed the plantation to his brother, Edwin Lascelles.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1788
[Number of enslaved people] 346(Tot)  
[Size] 535  
 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1795
 

Edwin Lascelles bequeathed the plantation to his cousin, Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)  
[Name] Belle  
 

Return of William Somerville, Manager, the property of the Earl of Harewood (there being no legal representative).

 
T71/520 288-95
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 291(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood. Previously 290 enslaved.

 
T71/529 274-5
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.

 
T71/534 245-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 294(Tot)  
[Name] Belle  
 

Return of Foster Clarke (Attorney), the property of the Earl of Harewood.

 
T71/540 265-6
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.

 
T71/547 263-5
1913
[Name] Belle and Little Simmonds  
[Size] 583  
 

Listed in St Michael, property of Earl Harewood.

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