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Ashford

Barbados | St John

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
- 1774 [LA] → Owner
George Foster [or Forster] Clarke
- 1807 [LA] → Owner
William Pinder
1807 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
John Hothersall Pinder the elder
1823 [EA] - 1837 [LA] → Owner
William Matson Barrow
1837 [EA] - 1879 [LA] → Owner
Henry Francis Harte

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4246A & B
£3,705 4S 4D

Notes

In 1658 Thomas Hothersall sold 140 acres to William Sharpe for £1250. In 1674-93 the owner became Robert Meade (140 acres). He left it to his son, John, in 1693. By 1713 it appears to have gone to Richard Clarke. By this point the extent was 171 acres and there were 89 enslaved people on it.

1713 Marriage settlement: Richard Clarke of St. John married Mercy Forster of St. Joseph, daughter of George Forster, deceased. Richard Clarke plantation, 171 acres, St. John, 89 enslaved.

1737 Mercy Clarke, widow of Richard Clarke, brought a Chancery Suit against John Forster, executor of Richard Clarke, deceased and against Richard Clarke, a minor, son and heir of Richard Clarke, deceased. Mercy Clarke sued for £1725 being arrears of capital and interest on an annuity of £200 bequeathed by her late husband and charged on the plantation. Chancery Court levy on 27 enslaved and 202 acres, St. John.

Sources

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

Estate Information (14)

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1774
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
 

George Forster Clarke appeared in a list of inhabitants of St John, Barbados, 1774 as owning 195 enslaved. (No estate name was given but almost certainly Ashford.) Note that the original list is partly torn: not all the numbers are visible and much of the handwriting is illegible or smudged.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/5. Return of persons in Saint John 1774.
1776
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
 

In 1776 the land and buildings were appraised at £50 per acres, total land value £11,700, 110 enslaved, appraised at average price of £42 each, total enslaved value £5,463.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1787
 

1787 Barbados Diary of Gen. Robert Haynes (q.v.). Robert Haynes’ father, Richard Haynes, married as his 2nd wife Ann Walker, widow of Henry Walker and prior to her marriage to Henry Walker, Ann Clarke, widow of George Forster Clarke, of the 'Ashford Estate'.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1795
 

Thomas Clarke, owner of the plantation, died sometime prior to 1769. He bequeathed the plantation to his son, George Forster Clarke. Mary Clarke, widow of Thomas Clarke and mother of George Forster Clarke sued George Forster Clarke for her dower rights. George Forster Clarke died in 1774 and by his will empowered his executor to sell the plantation to pay debts and legacies. Plantation valued at £16,779. By agreement among the creditors, the biggest creditor, Isaac Depiza bought the plantation and immediately resold it to Moses Depiza who then sold it to Jackson Brown for £14,000. Jackson Brown then sold the plantation to William Pinder for £16,999.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1807
 

Under his will, William Pinder bequeathed the plantation to his son John Hothersall Pinder.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
 

In 1816 the Hon. J. H. Pinder reported that there was £100 damage as a result of ‘the late insurrection’.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 65(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Ayshford  
 

Return of John Hothersall Pinder, his own property.

 
T71/521 653-56
1817
[Size] 288  
 

Hon. John Hothersall Pinder of St. John sold the 288 acres of the Ashford plantation and all the enslaved to William Matson Barrow of St. Philip for £35,000. Barrow paid £4,000 and Pinder took a mortgage for £31,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Ayshford  
 

Return of William M. Barrow, his own property. Previously 159 enslaved.

 
T71/530 192-3
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William M. Barrow, his own property. Previously 154 enslaved.

 
T71/536 352-4
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William M. Barrow, his own property.

 
T71/543 126-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William M. Barrow, his own property.

 
T71/550 142-3
1837
[Size] 298  
 

In 1837 William Mattson Barrow of St. John sold Ashford (298 acres) to Henry Francis Harte of St. John for £33,500. The settlement included the following charges on the plantation: 1. £2,500 bequest from William Pinder to his daughter; 2. John Hothersall Pinder’s marriage settlement with his wife Thomasin, née Haynes, guaranteed her an annuity of £600 at her husband’s death; 3. £8,000 mortgage Barrow to Pinder (from 1817). Harte paid £16,650 to Barrow together with the £2,500 bequest made by William Pinder to his daughter and retained £10,000 to pay the annuity of £600 to Thomasin Lardy, formerly Thomasin Pinder, widow, née Haynes and on death of Thomasin Lardy to pay £8000 owned by Barrow. He also agreed to repay a loan of £4,000 owed by Barrow to the British Government – a loan authorized by Act of Parliament to give relief to West Indian planters following the 1831 hurricane.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1913
[Name] Ashford  
[Size] 198  
 

Listed in St John, property of Hart.

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