UCL

Grand Capuchin

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1775 [LA] → Owner
John Boone
1775 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Annuitant
Ezekial Lewis of Cambridge, Mass.
1775 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
Francis Eyre

Francis Eyre purchased Capuchin estate in St John Dominica in 1775 from John Boone, but defaulted on the annuity he had pledged as part of the purchase price. The estate was mortgaged for £11,500 to Thomas and Rowland Hunt at the time. It is not yet clear whether and when the Capuchin estate was split into 'Grand' and 'Little'.

1817 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
Robert Seaman of Hounslow
1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Not known
James Potter Lockhart

James Potter Lockhart had contracted to buy Great Capuchin estate and the enslaved people on it for £4000 in 1819, according to the will of the vendor Robert Seaman of Hounslow. Lockhart appears to have sold on the estate and a smaller number of the enslaved people: the destination of the others is not yet known.

1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Stephen Caret

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 36 (Grand Capuchin)
£941 8S 6D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot) 44(F) 37(M)  
[Name] Grand Capuchin Estate  
 

Return of 'Robert Seaman Hounslow', owner; returned by Richard Seaman, manager. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. John. The owner was in fact Robert Seaman of Hounslow in England.

 
T71/342 373-375
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot) 14(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by Stephen Caret, owner. St. Peter.

 
T71/352 237 - 238
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 15(F) 17(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Return of Stephen Caret, owner. St John.

 
T71/358 199
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot) 17(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Stephen Caret, owner. St. John.

 
T71/360 170
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 22(F) 17(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by Stephen Caret, owner. St. John.

 
T71/362 387 - 388
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot) 28(F) 30(M)  
[Name] Grand Capuchin Estate  
 

Return of Stephen Caret, owner. St. John.

 
T71/363 172-173