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Penniston's

St Vincent

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 [EA] - → Owner
Jeremiah Penniston
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Jonathan Morgan
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Jonathan Morgan

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 576 (Penniston's)
£2,929 5S 10D

Notes

Shephard shows Pennistons as Lot no. 96 (208 acres, original purchaser 'Pennistons').

Sources

Shephard, Historical Account of the island of St Vincent Appendix XX.

Estate Information (7)

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1776
[Name] Penniston  
[Size] 203  
 

Charles Shephard following John Byres' 1776 Plan noted Penniston as Lot No. 96 with 208 acres. 'Jeremiah Penniston purchased 197 cleared acres in Boucamont, formerly occupied by one La Chaussée, at a price of £59 10 shillings per acre. Along with six uncleared acres at a price of £11 18 shillings per acre, Penniston paid a total of £11,792 sterling for his acquisitions in St. Vincent. BNA CO 106/9 N. 33.' Tessa Murphy, 'THE CREOLE ARCHIPELAGO: COLONIZATION, EXPERIMENTATION, AND COMMUNITY IN THE SOUTHERN CARIBBEAN, C. 1700-1796', Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Chicago (2016) p. 91.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Morgan & Jennings as owners.

 
T71/493 279-281
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot) 70(F) 59(M)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan as owner [11 enslaved people purchased in Dominica and imported in the schooner Delta, July 1817].

 
T71/495 136-138
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 64(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Penniston's Estate. Statement sworn by Edward G Miers [18 deaths].

 
T71/497 98
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot) 66(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by William Rickard Junr. [18 deaths].

 
T71/497 92-93
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 66(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by George Griffin.

 
T71/499 89
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 67(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Penniston's Estate  
 

Penniston's Estate. The property of Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by George Griffin. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 110 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 139-140