UCL

Hermitage Estate

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Lessee
Rev. James Coull

In his will proved in 1799 George Leonard left arrears of rent from Hermitage which was under lease to Rev. James Coull.

1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Heir-at-law
George Leonard

In his will proved in 1799 George Leonard left arrears of rent from Hermitage which was under lease to Rev. James Coull. Leonard's father-in-law Bezaliel Hodge had left an unnamed estate on Antigua to his daughter Frances Leonard and her husband George in 1789.

1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Owner
Rev. James Coull
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Dr Thomas Coull

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 70 (Hermitage Estate)
£1,620 5S 5D

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Name] None given  
 

In 1817 James Coull proprietor registered 262 enslaved people. Inferred to be on Hermitage and Crabb's; the enslaved people have been entered under Crabb's, the larger of the two estates in 1824, when the two were shown separately.

 
T71/245 372-378
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

James Coull proprietor. The estate is identified as Hermitage in the total on p. 22.

 
T71/247 20-22
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

James Coull proprietor. 'Hermitage' is noted down the left hand side of p. 155, the second of two estates identified under the same entry. The first was Crabb's.

 
T71/248 155-157
1828
[Name] None given  
 

Thomas Coull prop. registered 273 enslaved people of whom 250 were by purchase from the estate of James Coull decd. It is inferred that the registration was for Crabb's and Hermitage, and the enslaved have been entered under Crabb's.

 
T71/249 152-158