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Cane Gardens

Barbados | St Andrew

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 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Gabriel Lewis Ford
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Higginson

It seems likely that Higginson's exceutor, Richard Deane, was able to claim the compensation on the basis of Higginson's holding of the mortgage on the estate.

Associated Claims (2)

Barbados 4546 (Cane Gardens)
£1,190 8S 3D
Barbados 5195
£19 8S 4D

Notes

Note that the evolution of this estate is not clear. It seems likely that the returns relate to Cane Garden but the 1820 record does not correspond exactly in numbers to the 1823 'previous' figure of 101. Cane, or Cain, Garden is only given as the name of the estate in 1817 and then again in the compensation claim. However, the Hughes-Queree index suggests that Ford was the owner but in the 1820s became indebted to John Higginson, whose executor claimed the compensation.

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 16(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Cain Garden  
 

Return of Gabriel Lewis Ford, his own property.

 
T71/522 293-94
1817
 

Gabriel Lewis Ford bought from William Morris 100 acres.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Gabriel Lewis Ford, his own property. Changes in the enslaved since 1817: deaths: 5; gift to Renn Thompson: 1; births: 5; surrender of Hrs Thomasin Ford of her life estate: 19 (which included 3 deaths and 1 birth); purchases of Thomas Bishop Harper: 29. But see also general notes on the estate.

 
T71/526 361-63
1820
 

Gabriel Lewis Ford mortgaged to John Higginson.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot)  
 

Return of Gabriel L. Ford, his own property. Previously 101 enslaved.

 
T71/530 400
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
 

Return of Gabriel L. Ford, his own property. Previously 92 enslaved. 2 of the enslaved, Richard (aged 35) and Bella Jilly (29) were sold to John H. Hill and 'taken to Trinidad'.

 
T71/537 182
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
 

Return of Gabriel L. Ford, his own property.

 
T71/543 319
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
 

Return of Gabriel Ford, owner. Ford was the awardee on Barbados 5195 - 1 enslaved person.

 
T71/550 319-20