Needmust & Freemans

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

The interaction of Henry Hamilton's ownership of 276 enslaved people, in 1817 with the subsequent evolutions is unclear: he appears to have remained associated as owner of some 100 throughout this period. In the compensation records his award was shown as for 'Plymouth' but in his will he refers to the Mountain & Sulphur plantations.

1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

Mortgagee-in-possession of 100 enslaved people

1824 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (2)

£2,798 17S 3D
£1,772 1S 3D
This is an inferred association only. The relationship between Henry Hamilton's ownership in the Slave Registers has not been fully reconciled with the Compensation Records.

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Hamilton, owner; notes that one absent enslaved person is not included in the total given. Based on information found in the 1828 register, the estates for this entry have been identified as Olivers and Needsmust estates.

 
T 71/447 259-268
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Hamilton, planter and owner. Based on information found in the 1828 register, this entry has been identified as concerning Olivers and Needsmust estates.

 
T 71/448 108-116
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Robert Dobridge, attorney to Henry Dyett, of the city of London merchant, mortgagee in possession of 100 enslaved people delivered by Henry Hamilton, owner of Olivers and Needsmust, on 6 Aug. 1824. Based on information found in the 1828 register, this entry has been identified as concerning Olivers and Needsmust estates.

 
T 71/449 259-262
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Hamilton, planter and owner; 98 enslaved people were delivered to Henry Dyett of London and 21 were delivered to W D Furlonge; the total of enslaved given does not include ' a boy named Richard at present in Trinidad waiting on my son John'. Based on information found in the 1828 register, this entry has been identified as concerning Olivers and Needsmust estates.

 
T 71/449 267-272
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Olivers and Needsmust  
 

197 enslaved people were 'delivered over to Robert Dobridge and James Masters as attorneys to Rogers and Bold' on 10 December 1824 and that '197 enslaved people were returned on the second triennial return by the Hon. Henry Hamilton for Olivers and Needsmust and Robert Dobridge for Henry Dyett 23 Oct 1824' .

 
T 71/450 269-274
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Hamilton, owner; 12 enslaved people were acquired from William Dardis Furlong, trustee to Mrs Hamilton; 20 enslaved people aquired by purchase from H W Hamilton; 142 were delivered up to Needsmust Estate, including Richard, who is described as having 'arrived from Trinidad'; 8 people were rented to Blakes Estate; and 5 people were sold to Mr Warner. This entry appears to be related to Olivers and Needsmust estates .

 
T 71/450 259-263
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Olivers and Needsmust  
 

Return of Henry Dyett and others; returned by Thomas Henry Percy, as one of the attorneys to Rogers and Bold (residing in England), trustees; the other attorney is named as Robert Dobridge and the enslaved are said to be in his and Thomas Henry Percy's possession. The total of enslaved people given does not include an enslaved woman 'named Joan who has been absent for time past and supposed to be dead'; 54 enslaved people were acquired from Henry Dyett; notes Rogers and Bold had not made the previous return.

 
T 71/450 269-274
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of George Bryan Jeffers, owner; 171 enslaved people were acquired by purchase. This appears to be the same Needsmust estate previously owned by ... Hamilton.

 
T 71/451 121-126
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Hamilton, owner. This appears to be related to Olivers and Needsmust estates, but might refer to the estate shown as Plymouth in the compensation records.

 
T 71/451 211-214