UCL

Lower Diamond

St Vincent

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
1774 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
William Snell senior

William Snell lent £6000 secured by mortgage on the combined Diamond estate by a deed of 18/04/1774.

Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18 p. 342.

1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Joint owner
Elizabeth Morgan of St Croix
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Previous owner
John Lawley
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Richard Willis of Grenada

It appears that Willis' mortgage of £4000 embraced both the estates later known as Upper and Lower Diamond, which were divided in 1790 between Jonathan Morgan and the heirs of John Lawley.

1790 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Jonathan Morgan

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 502 (Lower Diamond)
£5,056 5S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Diamond Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan as owner.

 
T71/493 176-179
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 97(F) 101(M)  
[Name] Diamond Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan as owner [many enslaved people imported in the schooner Delta from Dominica, July 1817].

 
T71/495 80-82
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot) 96(F) 103(M)  
[Name] Lower Diamond Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan.

 
T71/497 55-56
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot) 95(F) 96(M)  
[Name] Lower Diamond Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by Thomas Wyllie.

 
T71/497 73-74
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 92(F) 98(M)  
[Name] Lower Diamond Estate  
 

Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by George Mitchell, manager.

 
T71/499 59-60
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 94(F) 90(M)  
[Name] Lower Diamond Estate  
 

Lower Diamond Estate. The property of Jonathan Morgan. Statement sworn by George A Mitchell, manager. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 185 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 94-95