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Mt Pleasant, White Gate

St Kitts | St Paul Capisterre

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1797 [EY] → Owner
Joseph Rawlins senior, of Baltimore
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Rawlins
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
Joseph Rawlins senior, of Baltimore

Identified as deceased only in the 1828 and 1831 Slave Registers

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 753 (Mt Pleasant, White Gate)
£4,337 19S 4D

Estate Information (7)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 248(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant and White Gate  
[Size] 400  
[Crop] sugar cane  
[Stock] 50 head of cattle and 20 mules and horses  
 

An advertisement stating that the estates, 'late the property of Joseph Rawlins Esq. deceased', were to be sold by auction on 20 February 1820 by Messrs Munn and Curtis of Walbrook, near the Royal Exchange. Included in the estates were 250 acres of cane land, a windmill, and sugar works.

 
The Times, 6 July 1819 pg. 4
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Whitegate and Mount Pleasant  
 

Return of Joseph Rawlins, owner; returned by John Swindell, attorney; the estates are listed only as initials in index, WG and MP.

 
T 71/256 331-332
1828
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Size] 266  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Paul Capisterre as an estate of 266 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 180 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Jos. Rawlins deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Name] White Gate  
[Size] 132  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Paul Capisterre as an estate of 132 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 116 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Jos. Rawlins deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Returned by Michael R Burke, manager of the estate of Joseph Rawlins Esq, deceased owner. St. Paul, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 103-104
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasnat and White Gate  
 

An unrecorded handbill dated 1828 was offered for sale by Maggs & Co. [n.d.]. The handbill advertised the sale of two estates on St Kitts, Mount Pleasant and White Gate, of 400 acres, with 104 men and boys; 94 women and girls; and 69 children (corrected by hand to 107 enslaved males; 91 enslaved females and 72 children in captivity), and reportedly carried a further hand written note showing the purchaser of the estate as Thomas Thomas, for £16,250. This transaction is not reflected in the 1831 Slave Register or the composition records, and presumably did not complete.

 
https://www.maggs.com/media/3365247/slavery.pdf
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant and White Gate  
 

Return of Joseph Rawlins, owner; returned by Charles Adamson, attorney.

 
T 71/259 125-126