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Boscobelle [Jeeves]

Barbados | St Andrew

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1757 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Owner
Henry Bishop

Tentative association only

1781 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
William Bishop
1801 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Owner
John Brathwaite Bishop
1810 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Martin Morris
1810 [EA] - → Owner
Conrade Pile
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
James Thomas Rogers

Rogers was later Morris's executor but his registering capacity in 1832 was not shown.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4603 (Boscobelle)
£2,207 19S 8D

Notes

The estate also appears to have been known as Jeeves: appears to have been in the possession of the Jeeves family from 1674-1757.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations (Jeeves, St Andrew); Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Names (John Martin Morris).

Estate Information (13)

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1736
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Size] 123  
 

Mortgage William Jeeves of St. Andrew to Thomas Withers & Thomas Harrison: £492.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1757
 

Will of Elizabeth Jeeves of St. Andrew, widow. Bequeathed the plantation to her nephew, Henry Bishop (who was also her executor).

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1781
 

1781 Will of Henry Bishop: bequeathed Boscobel plantation in to his son, William Bishop.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1801
 

Will of William Bishop: bequeathed Boscobel to his son, Henry John Brathwaite Bishop.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1804
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
 

In a Levy Book list for an unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], Barbados, 1804, Bishop (deceased) was listed as owning 86 enslaved. He was also listed as owning 1 windmill.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/7. Levy Book for unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], 1804.
1810
 

Chancery Court sale. Jeeves plantation, the property of John Brathwaite Bishop, sold to Conrade Pile of Christ Church for £10,760.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1810
[Size] 149  
 

Mortgage following purchase. John Martin Morris of St. Andrew to Conrade Pile of Christ Church: £8000 on the Jeeves plantation. The estate included 149 acres & a further 70 detached.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Jeeves  
 

Return of John M. Morris, his own property.

 
T71/522 340-43
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Martin Morris, his own property.

 
T71/526 417-20
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Martin Morris, his own property. Previously 128 enslaved.

 
T71/530 449
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John M. Morris, his own property.

 
T71/537 207
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] [Name not given]  
 

Return of J. M. Morris, owner. It is probable that this return referred to the Boscobelle estate but no name was given.

 
T71/543 339
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
 

Return of J. T. Rogers (unknown capacity) of the property of J. M. Morris. Rogers was later Morris's executor but his registering capacity in 1832 was not shown.

 
T71/550 337-8