UCL

Turtle(?) Island, St Thomas, or Con Phipps

St Kitts

Estate Details

Associated People (9)

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
- 1769 [EY] → Owner
Constantine Phipps senior

In his will of 1769, Constantine Phipps senior (q.v.) left his estate in St Thomas, Middle Island St Kitts to his son Constantine. The estate transcribed as Turtle[?] Island in the Compensation Records was previously shown in the Slave Registers as 'Con Phipps' in St Thomas and must be the same estate.

1769 [SY] - → Owner
Constantine Phipps junior
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Pownall Phipps
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Pownall Phipps
1831 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
William Manning
1831 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
Frederick Manning
1831 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
John Lavicount Anderdon
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Benjamin Greene
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Benjamin Buck Greene

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 561 (Turtle(?) Island, St Thomas)
£1,262 15S 1D

Notes

In the 1753 Samuel Baker map, three member of the Phipps family - James, Edward and Robert - were shown as holding land close to Brimstone Hill, where in 1828 the estate was shown as 'Constantine Phipps Esq. deceased.'

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Pownal (sic) Phipps, owner; returned by Hugh R Semper, manager.

 
T 71/253 191-192
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Pownal Phipps Esq, owner; returned by Phillip Semper, manager.

 
T 71/255 72
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps  
 

Return of Pownall Phipps, owner; returned by Philip Semper, manager; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

 
T 71/256 300-301
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps  
 

Returned by Thomas A Hardtman attorney for the estate of Pownall Phipps, deceased owner. The estate name is found in the index. St. Thomas, Middle Island

 
T 71/258 94
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps  
 

Return of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, owner; Thomas Turner, attorney; 16 enslaved people were purchased (2 from estate of P J Luard, 1 from James Evenden, 11 from David Elliot, 1 from John Rawlins and 1 from Roger Woodburne); 44 enslaved people were leased from the heirs of Pownal Phipps, owner.

 
T 71/259 93-95
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps Estate  
 

Return of Mannings and Anderdon, owner; returned by Thomas Turner, attorney; 70 enslaved people were delivered to Benjamin Green Esq on 8 Feb. 1832.

 
T 71/260 64
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps Estate  
 

Return of Mannings and Anderdon, joint owners; returned by Thomas Turner, attorney; 70 enslaved people were delivered to Benjn. B Greene Esq on 8 February 1832.

 
T 71/260 64
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] Con Phipps Estate  
 

Return of Benjamin Greene, owner; returned by B B Greene, attorney; 20 enslaved people were purchased from the assignees of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon; 42 people were received from the heirs of Pownal Phipps, and 11 people were received from William Greatheed Crooke; the estate name is written as "Con Phipps Estate, half way Tree"; this entry is followed by a separate return for the same estate.

 
T 71/260 62 to 64