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Skerretts

Antigua | St Philip | Nonsuch

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
1807 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Nicholas Nugent
1771 [SY] - 1807 [EY] → Owner
John Lynch of Antigua and Trinidad
- 1771 [EY] → Owner
Stephen Lynch of Ashtead Surrey
1707 [EA] - → Owner
Thomas Skerrett

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 267 (Skerretts)
£2,884 17S 8D

Notes

Note this estate is not to be confused with Skerrett's in St John's parish, owned by C. B. Codrington.

"314 acres. Before 1750 Stephen Lynch, Esq., purchased this of William Skerret for £20,704 c[urrency]. [Owned by] John Lynch, 1788. Nicholas Nugent, 170 slaves, 1829. Oliver Nugent, 1852 and 1871."

Sources

Email from Arthur Joseph 22/01/2018; Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. II pp. 88-89, 'Skerrett of Antigua'. Quote from Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. III p. 390.

Estate Information (7)

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1707
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 214  
 

A parent for 214 acres in Nonsuch, St Philip's, granted to Thomas Skerret, planter, 17/02/1707. Inferred to be Skerretts estate.

 
Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. III pp. 88-89, 'Skerrett of Antigua'.
1771
[Name] Skerretts  
 

Stephen Lynch of Ashtead Surrey by his will made 10/07/1769 and proved 02/07/1771 left 'my estate called Skerrets in Nonsuch division' to his son with his first wife Bridget, John Lynch, 'all sugars to be shipped , 1/2 to Robert Skerrett of London and 1/2 to Mr John Kirwan of ditto.' John Lynch died a bachelor, will dated 14/08/1807, sworn 02/01/1809. John Lynch's heir was his nephew Nicholas Nugent.

 
Vere Langford Oliver History of Antigua Vol II 'Pedigree of Lynch' pp. 206-208.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Nicholas Nugent proprietor

 
T71/245 539-542
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Nicholas Nugent prop.

NB This registration by Nicholas Nugent is consistent with his registrations of similar numbers of enslaved people in 1817 and 1824, and all three are inferred to be for 'Skerretts' consistent with Nugent's claim in the compensation process for the enslaved people on Skerrets or Skerretts.

 
T71/246 490-494
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Nicholas Nugent prop. Inferred to be Skerretts.

 
T71/248 514-517
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Nicholas Nugent prop. Inferred to be Skerretts.

 
T71/249 547-550
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Nicholas Nugent prop. Inferred to be Skerretts.

 
T71/250 500-503