UCL

Spur Tree / Pleasant Prospect

Jamaica | Manchester

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
John Swaby
1821 [EA] - → Not known
Frances King
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
John Swaby
1826 [EA] - → Trustee and Executor
James Swaby
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
James Matthew Whyte
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
George Brooks of Blenheim
1834 [EA] - → Receiver
Samuel Carson
1839 [EA] - → Not known
Curtis Philip Berry

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Manchester 165 (part) (Spur Tree)
£191 3S 10D

Estate Information (6)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 333(Tot) 148(F) 185(M)  
[Name] Pleasant Prospect Plantation  
 

In the possession of John Swaby as owner.

 
T71/65 409-416
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 348(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Swaby as owner.

 
T71/66 248
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 362(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Swaby as Owner. Increase of 11 enslaved people by purchase from various vendors.

 
T71/67 289-290
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 367(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Swaby as Trustee and Executor of John Swaby deceased?.

 
T71/68 441-442
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of George Brooks & J. M. Whyte Esquires as Receivers to the Estate of Jno Swaby deceased.

 
T71/72 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 383(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Matthew Whyte as Receiver.

 
T71/73 467