Cottage

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
1781 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Owner
1803 [EA] - 1844 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£1,784 12S 11D

Estate Information (9)

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1803
 

By his will of 1803, Benjamin Alleyne Cox of St. Michael bequeathed 3 plantations to his nephew Thomas Yard, son of his sister Elvira Yard, neé Cox: (1) Forster Hall; (2) Grove in St. George; (3) Cottage in St. George.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot) 40(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Cottage  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/520 820-22
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Size] 216  
 

The Balance of Accounts at end of 1817 valued the estate at £3,529 9 5d. Stock was listed as 83 cattle, 4 horses, 6 asses.

 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
 

Stock was listed as 84 cattle, 7 horses, 8 asses.

 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
 
Accounts Ledger 1817-1856 from Cottage, Grove and Forster Hall, Barbados Musuem Library
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard. Previously 98 enslaved.

 
T71/531 130
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard. Previously 91 enslaved.

 
T71/538 25-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/543 119-20
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
 

Return of John Wood jun., Attorney, the property of Thomas Yard.

 
T71/550 134-5