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Sandy Hill

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
1790 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Joint owner
Robert Norris
1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Joseph Barrow
1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Jacob Barrow
1793 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Robert Burnet Jones
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
Francis Hunte
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
Robert Norris
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Robert Hunte

Note: this Robert Hunte (awardee, Barbados 3057) and Robert Hunte, Awardee, Barbados 3078A & B (Thurban) are probably the same person.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3057
£4,013 19S 9D

Estate Information (8)

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1790
[Number of enslaved people] 4(Tot)  
[Size] 205  
 

John Gittens Eastmond of St. Philip sold to Robert Norris of St. Philip for £10,450, the Sandy Hill plantation or The Thicket Estate: 205 acres, St. Philip, 4 slaves.
Norris mortgaged the estate and 2 other parcels of land amounting to 80 acres to Joseph Barrow of Barbados and Jacob Barrow of London, England, business partners for £15,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1793
[Size] 300  
[Crop] 130  
 

Mortgage: Robert Norris and his wife Mary, both of St. Philip, mortgaged the plantation and ‘The Old Crane’ (both in St Philip) to Robert Burnett Jones of St. John: 300 acres, 130 enslaved.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 65(F) 65(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Fr. Hunte, Executor, the property of the Robert Norris, deceased.

 
T71/521 477-80
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Robert Hunte, his own property. No previous return. Of the 171 enslaved: 131 inherited from the estate of Robert Norris, deceased; gift of Francis Hunte: 4; bequeathed and bought of Francis Hunte, deceased: 31; births: 8; deaths: 3. See also return of Robert Hunte, Executor, the property of the estate of Francis Hunte, deceased, pp. 114-15, which shows the sales, gifts and bequeathed enslaved to Robert Hunte.

 
T71/530 101-07
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 1(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Robert Hunte, Executor, the property of the estate of Robert Norris, deceased. Of the 133 enslaved in the previous return: Absent from 1812 and returned since 1820: 1; Purchased of John H. Harding: 3; Births: 5; Deaths: 6; Bequeathed to Robert Hunte: 135. Included here because of previous ownership by Robert Norris. See also separate return from Robert Hunte.

 
T71/530 129-34
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Hunte, his own property. [The Register gives the name as Hounte but it is clearly Hunte.] Previously 171 enslaved. The ownership of Sandy Hill had passed to Robert Hunte by 1825 (and possibly earlier).

 
T71/536 272-3 ; Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Hunte, his own property.

 
T71/544 290-92
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Hunte, his own property.

 
T71/549 279-80