UCL

Sawcott's

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
- 1817 [EY] → Owner
John Horsford
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Samuel Nelson

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 285 (Sawcott's)
£943 11S 9D

Estate Information (6)

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1746
[Name] Sawcolt's Road and Sawcolt's Body Plantations  
 

Colonel John Sawcolt of Sawcolt's Road plantation in St Mary's and Sawcolt's Body plantation in St John's buried 02/01/1748. 'His six daus. inherited his estates.'

 
Vere Langford Oliver Vol. III pp. 71-73
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Horsford Member of HM Council prop.

 
T71/245 282-286
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Horsford. Inferred to be Sawcott's: the number of enslaved people corresponds to details in the 1824 Slave Register.

 
T71/246 222-226
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Sawcot's  
 

John Horsford proprietor Sawcot's plantation. In the previous return there had been 181 enslaved people on the estate. 94 had been surrendered to the mortgagee Robert Hyndman.

 
T71/248 348-349
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Sawcot's  
 

John Horsford proprietor 'Sawcot's Plantation.'

 
T71/249 348-350
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Paul Horsford acting on behalf of John Horsford proprietor.

 
T71/250 337-338