Clark Hall Coffee Estate

Estate Details


Associated People (2)

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
1817 [EA] - 1831 [EY] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - 1819 [EY] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (2)

£1,384 3S 4D
£2,698 4S 7D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot) 38(F) 35(M)  
[Name] Clark Hall Coffee Estate  
 

Return of Jas Clark and James Laing Esqs, joint owners. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. Joseph.

 
T71/340 270-272
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot) 48(F) 38(M)  
[Name] Clark Hall Coffee  
 

Returned by John Laidlaw, owner [sic]; 11 enslaved people were 'purchased from Jas Clark Esq. and removed from his estate, Mt Pleasant, in the Parish of St George', these people had been 'omitted to be registered in 1817 by Dr Clark and [were] admitted by the Legislature under petition of the executors'. St. Joseph.

 
T71/351 197 - 198
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot) 50(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Clark Hall Coffee Estate  
 

Return of James Laing and the heirs of Frances [? - almost certainly Jas. or James] Clarke, joint owners; returned by John Laidlaw as attorney. St. Joseph.

 
T71/358 152 -153
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot) 49(F) 36(M)  
[Name] Clarke Hall Coffee Estate  
 

Returned by D S Laidlaw, attorney for an unnamed owner. St. Joseph.

 
T71/359 135
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot) 36(F) 36(M)  
[Name] Clark Hall, Coffee Estate  
 

Returned by John Laidlaw as attorney for an unnamed owner; includes a full return of the enslaved; 9 of the enslaved listed on the decrease list were transferred to Clark Hall Sugar Estate on 25 August 1828. St. Joseph.

 
T71/361 284 - 286
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot) 34(F) 37(M)  
[Name] Clark Hall, Coffee Estate  
 

Returned by D.S. Laidlaw, attorney for an unnamed owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. Cause of death is given for the 7 people who died. St. Joseph.

 
T71/363 114