Saddle Hill

[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  
[Size] 153  

'Deeds in the Nevis Courthouse record that on 2 July 1783 Saddle Hill Estate, formerly owned by Hon. John Dasent, and Clay Gut Estate were put up for sale by the Provost Marshall on Nevis. Herbert bid for the plantations and became the owner. Alone that summary would be perfectly clear but another document records a different transaction on 22 September 1792. In this source Francis Williams Sanders of Greys [sic] Inn and his mother Elizabeth Sanders sold and assigned Saddle Hill plantation, of 153 acres, to Herbert for an annuity of £160 sterling to the son and £50 Nevis currency to the mother. Elsewhere in the document it gives the acreage as 135 and notes there were 88 slaves. It is believed that a Thomas Williams, who appears to have owned land at Saddle Hill and who died in 1766, left part of his estate to a John Williams Sanders, the father of Francis.'

David Small Montpelier Estate St John Figtree Nevis Contrasting Legacies on a Sugar Plantation (2010) p. 23.

https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/montpelierhistory.pdf p.23

[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 75(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of Mrs. Martha Williams, owner; returned by A. H. [sp?] Hamilton ['Mrs Martha Williams' is presumed to refer to Mrs Martha Williams Hamilton, shown as previous owner in subsequent Registers.]

T71/364 145-147

[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of Magnus Morton, in possession

T71/365 215-216

[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of Mrs Martha W Hamilton deceased owner; returned by Magnus Morton as executor

T71/366 180

[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of Mrs Martha W Hamilton deceased, owner; returned by F J Galpine

T71/367 177-178

[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 70(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of Mrs Martha Williams Hamilton deceased, owner; returned by William Henry Rawlins

T71/368 204-205

[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Saddle Hill  

Return of James Davoren , Receiver in Chancery; returned by W H Rawlins

T71/369 204-205

[Size] 134  

All that plantation or estate, called Saddle Hill situate, lying, and being in the parish of Saint John, Fig Tree... containing about 94 acres of cane land, and almost 40 acres of pasture land, together with a dwelling house, in tolerable repair, cattle mill and sugar works, in good order, 41 horned cattle, 3 mules, 17 sheep, plantation implements and utensils, and the unexpired term of apprenticeship of 14 male praedials, 27 female praedials, 10 boys praedials, 15 girls praedials, 3 male non-praedials, 10 female non-praedials, 1 girl non-praedials.

The London Gazette, Tuesday 11 Oct 1836 pp. 1770-1771