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Needsmust

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

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
1760 [SY] - → Owner
William Woodley MP

Inherited Needsmust and Box Tree in St Kitts from his father William Woodley (d. 1760)

1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Captain William Woodley

The 1822, 1825 and 1834 Slave Registrations were made in the name of Capt. William Woodley

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 210 (Needsmust)
£2,770 17S 3D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Needsmust Estate  
 

Return of William Woodley Esq, owner; returned by William Pitt, manager.

 
T 71/253 236-240
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Capt William Woodley RN, owner; returned by Robert Macken, attorney.

 
T 71/255 126-127
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Needsmust  
 

Return of Capt William Woodley RN, owner; returned by Duncan Robertson, manager.

 
T 71/257 425-426
1828
[Name] Needsmust  
[Size] 225  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Peter Basseterre as an estate of 225 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 166 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) William Woodley deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Needsmust  
 

Return of Duncan Robertson, manager for the estate of William Woodley Esq, owner. St. Peter, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 152
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Needsmust  
 

Return of William Woodley Esq, owner; returned by Duncan Robertson, attorney.

 
T 71/259 150
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Capt William Woodley, owner; returned by Duncan Robertson, attorney.

 
T 71/260 171 to 172