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Thibou's Estate

Antigua

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
1755 [SY] - 1785 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Jarvis senior

Thomas Jarvis through his marriage to Rachel Thibou became possessed of the Thibou's estate and Long Island. In 1755 he entered into a deed with George Blount and his wife Hester or Esther of Henley-upon-Thames (Esther was the relict of Jacob Thibou the younger, d. c. 1741 in England, the brother of Rachel Thibou and son and heir of Jacob Thibou senior late of Antigua, merchant) to lease Esther's dower interest in 2/3 of the real estate her lifetime for £580 currency a year.

1785 [SY] - 1805 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Jarvis junior
1755 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Other
Rachel Jarvis (née Thibou)

Thomas Jarvis through his marriage to Rachel Thibou became possessed of the Thibou's estate and Long Island. In 1755 he entered into a deed with George Blount and his wife Hester or Esther of Henley-upon-Thames (Esther was the relict of Jacob Thibou the younger, d. c. 1741 in England, the brother of Rachel Thibou and son and heir of Jacob Thibou senior late of Antigua, merchant) to lease Esther's dower interest in 2/3 of the real estate her lifetime for £580 currency a year. Rachel Thibou had inherited the whole under her father's will after the death of her brother (but subject to the challenge for dower).

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 30 (Thibou's Estate)
£4,194 12S 7D

Estate Information (6)

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1755
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Close Roll 29 Geo II Part 13 No. 10. Indenture 28/1/1755 between George Blount of Henley on Thames and Hester his wife (late widow and relict of Jacob Thibou the younger formerly of Antigua but late of London, son of and heir of Jacob Thibou the elder merchant, and Thomas Jarvis of Antigua. Under Jacob Thibou the elder's will of 1741, his son Jacob the younger inherited his residuary estate but if he died before 21 or died afterwards without issue all the estate passed to his sister Rachel. On Jacob Thibou the younger's death, Esther Thibou became dowable on 2/3 of the real estate. George Blount, Esther Blount formerly Thibou and Thomas Jarvis had reached agreement to lease for £580 currency p.a. during her lifetime all her dower from the lands of Jacob Thibou the younger in Antigua and Long Island adjoining, all of which estate was in possession of Thomas Jarvis in right of Rachel his wife.

 
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol. III pp. 123-124.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Peter Murray, attorney of James Nibbs and Samuel Martin trustees to Bertie Entwisle Jarvis the proprietor estate called Thibou's

 
T71/245 491-498
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 311(Tot)  
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Peter Murray, attorney of James Nibbs and Samuel Martin trustees to Bertie Entwisle Jarvis the proprietor (Thibou's)

 
T71/246 465-473
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 330(Tot)  
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Bertie E. Jarvis proprietor Thibou's

 
T71/248 401-407
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 319(Tot)  
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Bertie Entwisle Jarvis proprietor

 
T71/249 399-405
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 327(Tot)  
[Name] Thibou's  
 

Bertie Entwisle Jarvis proprietor Thibou's

 
T71/250 370-376