UCL

Cocoa Nut Hall

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1815 [LA] → Owner
Andrew Edwards

Tentative association only.

1761 [SY] - → Owner
Nathaniel Crump
1770 [EA] - → Annuitant
Andrew Newton 'of London'

Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, M198 p. 236 shows Andrew Newton of London purchasing an annuity for life of £300 p.a. secured on Crumps Mountain, Crumps Windward, and Crump's Steel [=Stock] in 1770.

1821 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Davis Edwards

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 303 (Cocoa Nut Hall?)
£2,123 1S 9D
Inferred association of the unnamed estate under Antigua no. 303, the compensation for which was paid to William Shand as mortgagee. T71/877 shows 'Heirs of Andrew Edwards deceased.'

Notes

Named in Vere Langford Oliver as the family estate of the Edwards (History of Antigua Vol. 1 'Edwards Family', p. 231 et seq.). Inferred link with 1817 Slave Register entry for Andrew Edwards, although Oliver shows Andrew Edwards dead by 1815.

Inferred association of the unnamed estate under Antigua no. 303, the compensation for which was paid to William Shand as mortgagee. T71/877 shows 'Heirs of Andrew Edwards deceased.'

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Andrew Edwards prop.

Inferred to be Cocoa Nut Hall from Vere Langford Oliver's family tree for the Edwards' (History of Antigua Vol. 1 pp. 231 et seq.).

 
T71/245 404-407
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Davis Edwards prop. '152 inherited from the estate of Andrew Edwards deceased.' Inferred to be Cocoa Nut Hall.

 
T71/247 55-59
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Davis Edwards prop. Inferred to be Cocoa Nut Hall, from family holding and 1817 Slave Registration by or for Andrew Edwards, John Davis Edwards' brother.

 
T71/248 227-229
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Spencer Edwards att for John Davis Edwards.

 
T71/249 235-237
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Davis Edwards by his atty Thomas Spencer Edwards.

 
T71/250 212-214