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Whites estate

St Kitts | St Mary Cayon

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
- 1776 [EY] → Owner
John White of St Kitts and Chichester
1776 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
George White Thomas

Unnamed estate or estates but almost certainly including White's were entailed on George White Thomas under the will of his father John White proved in 1776.

1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
General John Gustavus Crosbie

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 316 (Whites estate)
£3,312 12S 5D

Notes

'General Crosbie' is marked in the 1828 William McMahon map in the same area of St Mary Cayonne as John White Esq. in the 1753 Samuel Baker map.

Estate Information (6)

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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of General Crosbie, owner; returned by Henry S Clarke, manager.

 
T 71/255 27
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] John White's  
 

Return of General Crosbie, owner; returned by William Swanston, manager; the name of the estate is listed in the index but not in the entry.

 
T 71/256 100-101
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] John Whites  
 

Return of Peter Burn Swanston, manager of the estate of Lieut General J G Crosbie, owner. St. Mary, Cayon

 
T 71/258 36-37
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 204  
 

Listed in St Mary Cayon as an estate of 204 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 108 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) General Crosbie.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot)  
[Name] White's  
 

Return of General Crosbie, owner; returned by Peter B. Swanston, manager.

 
T 71/259 39-40
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Whites  
 

Return of General John Gustavus Crosbie, owner; returned by Thomas Swanston, attorney.

 
T 71/260 38 to 39