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Belmont [Haynes Field]

Barbados | St John

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
- 1808 [LA] → Owner
Francis Bell the elder
- 1808 [LA] → Owner
Ruth Alleyne Bell

Inherited 1/2 of the estate from her husband, Francis Bell, in 1808.

1808 [EA] - → Owner
Francis Bell

Inherited 1/2 of the estate from his father, Francis Bell in 1808.

1816 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
Edmund Haynes

Haynes had become the owner at some point between 1808 and 1816.

1827 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Owner
Francis Cheesman
1839 [EA] - → Owner
John Eastmond Todd

Probably John Eastmond Todd.

Notes

See also the records for Haynes Field.

Estate Information (6)

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1808
 

By the will of Francis Bell (11 May 1808), half of the Belmont estate went to his son, Francis Bell, half to his wife, Ruth Alleyne Bell. £100 was also given to Sarah Haynes, his daughter and wife of Edmund Haynes. (They had married in 1805.) Sarah Haynes subsequently died and Edmund Haynes re-married to Lucy Reed, daughter of George Reed.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
 

By 1816 Belmont & Haynes field were in the name of Edmund Haynes.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
 

For the 1817 Slave Register return which included Belmont (or Belle Mount) with Haynes Field, see the record for the latter.

1827
 

2 January 1827, Edmund Haynes sold Belmont to Francis Cheeseman for £1,100 sterling.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1833
 

Francis Cheeseman died in 1833. By his will he left Belmont to his wife Rebecca Richard Cheeseman for her lifetime & then to their son Richard Brathwaite Cheesemen. The latter died in 1835. The executors of the estate included Josiah Heath who was married to Francis Cheeseman’s daughter, Jane Ann.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1839
 

Mrs Cheeseman, Josiah Heath & Francis Cheeseman’s daughters sold Belmont to John Eastmond Todd for £2,400 currency.