UCL

Fortress

Barbados | St Thomas

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
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
John Cutting Packer
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
Joseph Lyder Briggs
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Lyder Briggs

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2042 (Fortress)
£1,033 2S 3D
Probably the associated claim.

Estate Information (5)

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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 69(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Cutting Packer, the joint property of Joseph L. Briggs and himself. Previously 68 enslaved.

 
T71/531 212
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Cutting Packer, the joint property of Joseph L. Briggs and himself. Previously 69 enslaved.

 
T71/538 99
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Briggs. Previously the property of Packer and Briggs 'and now his property'.

 
T71/542 11-12
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph [Lyder?] Briggs, his own property.

 
T71/551 5
1913
[Name] Fortress  
[Size] 87  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Manning and Sealy.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.