UCL

Bush Hill

Nevis

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
- 1827 [LA] → Not known
Mary Forbes of Bath

In her will proved in 1827 Mary Forbes of Bath bequeathed 'all rents due to me at my decease' from Bush Hill.

- 1783 [EY] → Owner
William Clarke of Bush Hill

The connection between William Clarke and Bush Hill estate in Nevis is suggested but not definitively shown in a 'Bush Hill Estate, St John Figtree, Nevis: a preliminary assessment of the documentary evidence' by Christine Eickelmann and David Small at The University of Bristol, http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/bushhillhistory.pdf [accessed 31/01/2018].

1827 [SY] - 1828 [LA] → Executrix
Jane Forbes (née Smithson)
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
George Clarke Forbes
1831 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner
Jane Forbes (née Smithson)

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 19 (Bush Hill)
£1,420 9S 8D

Notes

Bush Hill may have been in operation as soon as the early- 18th century and did not cease operation until the early-20th century. The estate is the subject of a 'Preliminary assessment of the documentary evidence' by Christine Eickelmann and David Small at The University of Bristol, http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~emceee/bushhillhistory.pdf [accessed 31/01/2018].

Sources

Marco Meniketti (2006) Sugar Mills, Technology, and Environmental Change: A Case Study of Colonial Agro-Industrial Development in the Caribbean, The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, Vol. 32, No. 1, pg. 75

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of George Clarke Forbes, owner

 
T71/364 161-162
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 34(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of George Clarke Forbes Esq., owner

 
T71/365 39-40
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of George Clarke Forbes Esq., owner; returned by George Bucke, attorney

 
T71/366 13
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of George Clarke Forbes, deceased, owner, in the possession of Mrs Jane Forbes, executrix; returned by George Bucke, attorney

 
T71/367 11-Dec
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot) 33(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of Mrs Jane Forbes, owner; returned by George Bucke

 
T71/368 26
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 33(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Bush Hill  
 

Return of Jane Forbes, owner; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/369 79 - 80