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Colletons Plantation

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
- 1790 [EY] → Owner
James Edward Colleton
1790 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Owner
Frances Colleton (née Jennings)
1805 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Owner
Charles Garth Colleton born Garth
1818 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Capt. Thomas Garth R.N.
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4210 (Colletons)
£6,381 4S 2D

Notes

Note that this is different from Colletons, St Philip, Barbados.

The Colleton, plantation in St. John was originally established by John Colleton, later Sir John Colleton Bt., between his arrival in Barbados in 1650 and 1660. By 1800 it was owned by Charles Garth Colleton. The plantation remained in the ownership of the Colleton family and their descendants until after emancipation.

Sources

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

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 290(Tot) 145(F) 145(M)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Charles Garth Colleton.

 
T71/521 577-84
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Size] 538  
 

According to one entry in the Ledger for 1818 (f.13) referring to the estate of Charles Garth Colleton, deceased, on the Debit page:
"To stock: land: 537½ acres; 'Negroes': 286; Cattle: 127; Horses: 19; Plantation: 'Negroes': 10; Cattle: 9; Horses: 2."
It appears that Thomas Garth assumed ownership in 1818 from his brother Charles Garth Colleton.

 
Colleton Plantation Ledger 1818-1857, Barbados Musuem and Historical Society.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 285(Tot)  
[Name] Colletons  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Garth. Previously 285 enslaved.

 
T71/530 214-15
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Garth. Previously 285 enslaved.

 
T71/537 4-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 279(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Garth.

 
T71/543 136-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Thomas Garth.

 
T71/550 225-6
1913
[Name] Colleton  
[Size] 540  
 

Listed in St John, property of Godsal.

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