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Ratho Mill

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Anne Dowers

Legatee of the £20,000 owed by Richard Rees to Edward Sharpe (each of whom q.v.) for an estate inferred to be Ratho Mill in St Vincent.

- 1796 [LA] → Owner
Henry Sharpe

In a deed of 01/08/1800, Henry Sharpe (who had died in 1796) was said to have granted a mortgage to James Newbigging 'of the City of London' to secure the payment of the purchase price for Ratho Mill.

- 1789 [EY] → Owner
Patrick Wilkie
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Coll Turner

LBS has tentatively inferred the estate mortgaged by Patrick Wilkie to Coll Turner and Robert Paul in 1776 to have been the same as, or to have developed into, Ratho Mill.

1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Robert Paul

LBS has tentatively inferred the estate mortgaged by Patrick Wilkie to Coll Turner and Robert Paul in 1776 to have been the same as, or to have developed into, Ratho Mill.

1789 [EA] - → Joint owner
James Newbigging writer of Edinburgh

Newbigging was co-heir of Patrick Wilkie, the owner of Ratho Mill whose will was proved in 1789. In a deed of 01/08/1800, James Newbigging 'of the city of London' was shown as holding a mortgage from Henry Sharpe to secure the payment of the purchase price of Ratho Mill. LBS has inferred that Newbigging had sold his share or the whole of Ratho Mill to Henry Sharpe.

1804 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Edward Protheroe senior
1804 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Philip Protheroe the elder
1804 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Robert Claxton of Bristol
1817 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Owner
Edward Sharpe of York Place

Associated Claims (2)

St Vincent 509B (Ratho Mill)
£1,626 10S 8D
St Vincent 509A (Ratho Mill)
£5,402 13S 10D

Notes

Shephard gives Ratho Mill as the present estate against Lot no. 136 (121 acres, original purchaser Wilkie), and of the lands leased to French inhabitants Lots no. 111 (74 acres, original 'purchaser' Imbert, shown against both Ratho Mill and Prospect) and nos. 113 & 114 (35 and 15 acres respectively, original 'purchasers' Clouet and Arnaud).

Sources

Charles Shephard An historical account of the Island of St Vincent Appendix XX.

Estate Information (9)

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1776
[Name] None given  
 

Under a deed of 20/07/1776 Patrick Wilkie mortgaged an unnamed estate of 121 acres in St George on St Vincent with 158 named enslaved people and an estate called Brebner with 22 enslaved people to Coll Turner and Robert Paul of St Vincent to secure £766 currency and further advances to be made (a second deed indicates £5000). This was conceivably Ratho Mill.

Deed Book 1776-1777, British Library, EAP688/1/1/27, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-27 pp. 52-56.

1789
[Name] Ratho Mill  
 

Under his will proved 30/07/1789 [PROB 11/1182/140], Patrick Wilkie of the island of St Vincent at present residing in Scotland left his estate Ratho Miln [sic] and other leased lands and purchased lots in trust, to secure an annuity of £200 p.a. to his wife Mrs Jane Napier and then half to his sister Anne Wilkie the wife of Henry Hepburn the Collector of Customs at Preston Pans, and half to James Newbigging, writer in Edinburgh, one of his trustees.

 
PROB 11/1182/140
1809
[Name] Raths [sic] Mill  
 

'f. 93‐105 Entered 26 April 1809 Assignment from Messrs Edward & Philip Protheroe & Robert Claxton (merchants and co‐partners, Bristol) and John Cave (esquire, Bristol) in trust for Messrs Robert Claxton & Son: an indenture dated 21 October 1808. The Protheroes & Claxton sell to Cave an estate [presumably in fact a mortgage over the estate - LBS] called Raths [sic] Mill, Calliaqua, Saint Georges parish, Saint Vincent, 212 acres, 174 slaves. An indenture of mortgage for this property was dated 1 November 1804 between Edward Sharpe, esquire of the one part and Edward & Philip Protheroe and Robert Claxton of the other by William John Struth, esquire, their attorney. The property had been acquired in 1804 for £6,000 sterling. The estate is now acquitted, released and discharged to Robert Claxton and Butler Thompson Claxton of Bristol.'

Prof. Kenneth Morgan, EAP345: A survey of the endangered archives of St Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era http://eap.bl.uk/downloads/eap345_survey.pdf [accessed 31/03/2017].

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Edward Sharpe as owner [including two manumitted enslaved people].

 
T71/493 183-188
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot) 134(F) 130(M)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Edward Sharpe as owner.

 
T71/495 86-87
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot) 137(F) 126(M)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Edward Sharpe.

 
T71/497 62
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot) 141(F) 134(M)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Edward Sharpe.

 
T71/497 81-82
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot) 145(F) 131(M)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Ratho Mill Estate. Statement sworn by Richard Rees.

 
T71/499 74-76
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 270(Tot) 145(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Ratho Mill Estate  
 

Ratho Mill Estate. The property of Richard Rees Statement sworn by Hugh McColl. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 270 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 114-116