UCL

Little Capuchin, St John

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
- 1817 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Hunt of Oundle

Inferred to belong to Thomas Hunt by virtue of the tentative identification of his heir in the 1817 Slave Register

1775 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Rowland Hunt
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'.

1775 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Thomas Hunt of Oundle

Thomas Hunt together with Rowland Hunt of London are known to have held a mortgage of £11,500 over the Capuchin estate 1775-7.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Welch Hunt
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Pierre Lamothe

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 40 (St John)
£1,937 17S 6D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 105(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Little Capuchin Estate  
 

Return of 'J. [= T?] W. Hunt', owner; returned by Archibald Stewart, manager. St. John. NB the connection of this to the other successive entries for 'St John' remains unclear but in 1832 the estate was again identified as Little Capuchin and appears connected by its ownership to the interim successive entries.

 
T71/342 380-385
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot) 43(F) 35(M)  
 

Returned by Pierre Lamothe, owner; notes that 1817 return had been made in St Joseph [where the enslaved were registered as being attached to Deux Bras Estate]. St. John.

 
T71/353 272 - 273
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 50(F) 40(M)  
 

Return of Pierre La Mothe, owner. St John.

 
T71/358 203
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 59(F) 49(M)  
 

Returned by Pierre Lamothe, owner. St. John.

 
T71/360 174
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 63(F) 63(M)  
 

Returned by Pierre Lamothe, owner; includes a full return of the enslaved. St. John.

 
T71/362 397 - 400
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 53(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Little Capuchin Estate  
 

Return of Pierre Lamothe, owner; returned by Paul Martial Lamothe, agent. St. John.

 
T71/363 176