Barbados 4601 (Morgan Lewis)

Parliamentary Papers p. 198.

T71/899: counterclaim from Rev. Kenrick Francis Saunders, of Brighton, for a legacy left to his wife of a counterclaim amounting to £2740 sterling, and also as creditor by judgment dated 11/08/1819, for £982 10s. Counterclaim also from the Daniels.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 17: shows that the Morgan Lewis estate was valued by appraisers in 1835 at £16,171. It was sold by the Court of chancery in 1841, when half of the debt of £32,852 was owed in the form of legacies and annuities; the remainder was for small creditors and mortgages to T & J Daniel. The estate was sold for  £17,714, covered court costs, legacies and £8571 due to the Daniels. The annuities and small debts went unpaid.

T71/562 p. 198: enslaved persons were registered by Scawen Kenrick Gibbons, as his own property.  

See also Barbados claim nos. 631C and (possibly) 2814 for other Gibbons claims.