UCL

Parry's

Antigua

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
- 1748 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Kerby of Antigua and Mincing Lane

In his will proved in 1748 Thomas Kerby described his estates as Old North Sound and New North Sound: the former had belonged, he said, to Col. Samuel Parry and he had bought it from Nathaniel Carpenter, Thomas Thornbury and others. The estate descended as Parry's to his family.

1767 [SY] - 1819 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Norbury Kerby
- 1767 [EY] → Owner
Hamilton Kerby
- 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Rev. John Thomas Wilgress

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 339 (Parry's)
£1,832 9S 7D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Parrys  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby proprietor. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to his estate called Parrys.

 
T71/245 209-213
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Parry's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator to the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Parry's plantation

 
T71/246 365-368
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Parry's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator to the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Parry's plantation

 
T71/248 761-764
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Parry's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator to the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Parry's plantation

 
T71/249 432-435
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] Parry's  
[Size] 322  
[Crop] Sugar, rum , molasses  
[Stock] 54  
 

In April 1831 the sale by public auction in October 1831 of Parry's and Weir's estates on Antigua were advertised arising from the suit of Charles Pott and others (executors and executrix of Robert Pott) versus Hon. Samuel Warner (Administrator of Thomas Norbury Kerby). Parry's was shown of 322 acres 'with 167 slaves, 38 head of horned cattle, six horses, four mules and six asses.'

 
London Gazette 18819 01/07/1831 p. 1314
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Parry's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator to the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor plantation Parry's

 
T71/250 402-405