Nicholas Taylor

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1751

Biography

Slave-owner on St Kitts. His widow Elizabeth and her second husband William Wells (q.v.) were parties to a suit in the 1750s concerning his intestacy.

Sources

Caribbeana Vol. VI pp. 69-70.

Further Information

Spouse

Elizabeth Fenton

Children

1 da; 4 s

Associated Estates (1)

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

- 1751 [EY] → Owner

Hope & Colquhouns [ St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town ]

Inferred by LBS from comparison of the 1753 and 1828 maps of St Kitts. Hope in Christ Church Nichola Town in the 1828 William McMahon map (where it is marked 'The Hope of John Swindell Esqr.') appears to be the in the same location as the estate marked 'Taylors Island' and 'Nichs, Taylor Esq.' in the 1753 Samuel Baker map, on the eastern edge of the parish and adjacent to Bevon Island.