UCL

Somersalls

St Kitts | St Anne Sandy Point

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
John Towgood
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
Anthony William Somarsall or Somersall

Shown in William McMahon's 1828 map as 'Messrs Mills and Swanston late Anthony William Somersall decd.'

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 464 (Somersalls)
£1,129 2S 0D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Towgood Esq, mortgagee in possession; returned by Richard Rawlins, manager.

 
T 71/253 414-415
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot)  
[Name] Somersall's  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins, renter and John Towgood, mortgagee in possession; returned by John H. Ward, registering capacity not given.

 
T 71/255 111
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] Somersall's  
 

Return of John Towgood Esq, mortgagee in possession; Andrew Lynch French, lessee; the name of the estate is only found in the index

 
T 71/256 172
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Jedediah Kerie Edmead for Andrew Lynch French, lessee of the estate of John Towgood, mortgagee in possession.

 
T 71/258 343
1828
[Name] Somarsalls  
[Size] 261  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Anne Sandy Point as an estate of 261 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 214 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Messrs. Mills & Swanston.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Jedediah Kerie Edmead, lessee of the estate of John Towgood Esq, mortgagee in possession; this is followed by an entry concerning the same estate.

 
T 71/258 341-342
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Towgood Esq, owner; returned by Jedidiah Kerie Edmead, lessee.

 
T 71/259 141
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Somersall's Estate  
 

Returned by Jedediah Kerie Edmead, lessee; although Edmead made the return as lessee, there is a note that states: "Jed K Edmead purchaser of Somersal's Estate under special contract".

 
T 71/260 55