Island of Mustique

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
1801 [SY] - 1812 [EY] → Owner

A deed of 1812 between John Browne of Lothbury and William Lushington formerly of Portland Place, now of Camden Place, recorded the assignment to Browne of the island of Mustique and 85 named enslaved people on it to secure a debt to Browne of £15,000 under Lushington's marriage settlement. The deed says that in 1801 William Lushington had purchased Mustique from John Campbell for £12,723.

- 1795 [EY] → Owner
1790 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
1790 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
1787 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Assignee

In 1787 Nesbitts & Stewart were assigned the island of Mustique held in fee simple by Alexander Campbell, and guaranteed 150 hogsheads of muscavado sugar p.a. to secure and service their debt of £9116 8s 2d from Alexander Campbell.

1787 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Assignee

In 1787 Nesbitts & Stewart were assigned the island of Mustique held in fee simple by Alexander Campbell, and guaranteed 150 hogsheads of muscavado sugar p.a. to secure and service their debt of £9116 8s 2d from Alexander Campbell.

1787 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Assignee

In 1787 Nesbitts & Stewart were assigned the island of Mustique held in fee simple by Alexander Campbell, and guaranteed 150 hogsheads of muscavado sugar p.a. to secure and service their debt of £9116 8s 2d from Alexander Campbell.

1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1812 [EA] - 1812 [LA] → Assignee

A deed of 1812 between John Browne of Lothbury and William Lushington formerly of Portland Place, now of Camden Place, recorded the assignment to Browne of the island of Mustique and 85 named enslaved people on it to secure a debt of £15,000 under Lushington's marriage settlement. Lushington had originally remitted the money from India but not funded his settlement, for which he was pursued by his trustee John Petrie. He had pledged his share in a ship called Canton as security but then made over a mortgage over Mustique to John Browne as additional security. The assignment to Browne was in trust.


Notes

Treated as a single entity in the late 18th century but by the Slave Registers two separately-owned estates were shown in the island of Mustique: Cheltenham (q.v.) and Adelphi/Grand Bay (q.v).


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1787
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Island of Mustique  
 

Under an indenture of 16/07/1787, Alexander Campbell of Grenada agreed with John Nesbit, Arnold Nesbit and Edward Stewart, co-partners of London who had earlier [the precise date in the 1770s is omitted] advanced £10,000 to Campbell (for which he had given his penal bond of £20,000, and of which the balance after other dealings and transactions between the parties was then £9166 8s 2d) to assign the island of Mustique and 175 'negroes' to the two Nesbitts and Stewart to consign 150 hogsheads of sugar in the years, the net proceeds of which were to go to service the interest and principal on the £9166 8s 2d). The deed includes the names of the 175 enslaved people.

Deed Book 1787, British Library, EAP688/1/1/2, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-2 pp. 478-496.

 
EAP 688 1787 Deed Book pp. 508
1790
[Name] Island of Mustique  
 

By deed of 1790, Alexander Campbell formerly of Grenada but then at Wimpole Street and John Campbell of Glasgow conveyed Mustique to William Lushington and James Law on mortgage for £16,000. The deed rehearsed an earlier deed of 1787 under which Alexander Campbell mortgaged Mustique to Arnold and John Nesbitt and Edward Stewart, with the personal guarantee of Thomas Campbell then of Grenada and of Wimpole Street, which was then later replaced by the guarantee of John Campbell of Glasgow, who was to become the mortgagee and consignee in place of the Nesbitts.

Deed Book 1791, British Library, EAP688/1/1/5, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-5 pp. 1 et seq.