River plantation

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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
- 1755 [EY] → Owner

Assumed to be the same estate as the River estate in St Andrew bequeathed by Hon. John Harrison in his will proved in 1755 to his nephew Thomas Minvielle (then an infant) at 23.

1755 [SY] - → Heir

Assumed to be the same estate as the River estate in St Andrew bequeathed by Hon. John Harrison in his will proved in 1755 to his nephew Thomas Minvielle (then an infant) at 23.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,427 6S 6D

Estate Information (6)

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1804
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

In a Levy Book list for an unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], Barbados, 1804, John Cummins was listed as owning 51 enslaved. Whether this was the same John Cummins as this one is not certain.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/7. Levy Book for unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], 1804.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot) 32(F) 29(M)  
[Name] River  
 

Return of John Cummins, his own property.

 
T71/522 277-78
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property. The 1826 return gave the previous figure as 64: the 1823 Register records 63. There was no previous return. Purchased of William Oxley, Master in Chancery: 33; purchased of John T. Corbin: 2; purchased of Edward Archer: 27; birth: 1.

 
T71/530 370-72
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property. Previously 64 enslaved.

 
T71/537 164
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property.

 
T71/543 303
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, owner.

 
T71/550 309-10