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Four Hills

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Associated People (6)

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
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
George Walker Esq.
1758 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
George Walker II
1783 [EA] - 1793 [LA] → Owner
George Walker II
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hon. John O. Crewe
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Samuel Withstandley
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
John Withstandley

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4943 (Four Hills)
£3,060 10S 0D

Notes

See also records for The Rock. Four Hills in the Walker family from c. 1680.

Estate Information (9)

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1741
 

William Walker of St. Peter mortgaged to Henry Lascelles, merchant of London, England, for £5132, 1. Four Hills 271 acres and 2. The Rock. He also mortgaged to Thomas Baxter, £4681 secured on Four Hills and the Rock.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1758
 

Will of William Walker: bequeathed Four Hills to his brother George Walker, as life tenant and then to his eldest son, George Walker in fee simple.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1793
 

Will of George Walker of St. Peter. Bequeathed Four Hills and The Rock to his sister Henrietta Maria Hungerford and, if she had no issue, to his cousin John Lucie Blackman. 'The plantation passed to Henrietta Maria Hungerford’s daughter, also called Henrietta Maria Hungerford, who married John Crewe.' [There is possibly confusion here: LBS has concluded that there was a single Henrietta Maria Hungerford, sister or half-sister of George Walker II]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 56(F) 76(M)  
 

Return of Thomas S. Withstandley, Attorney, the property of the Hon. John Crewe.

 
T71/522 389-92
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
 

Return of Thomas S. Withstandley, Attorney, the property of the Hon. John Crewe. Previously 134 enslaved.

 
T71/531 361
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot) 61(F) 77(M)  
 

Return of John Withstandley for Thomas S. Withstandley (Attorney), the property of the Hon. John Crewe. Thomas Withstandley was an invalid hence the return was filed by John Withstandley. Previously 136 enslaved.

 
T71/538 229
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Withstandley for Thomas S. Withstandley (Attorney), the property of John Crewe. Thomas Withstandley was an invalid hence the return was filed by John Withstandley.

 
T71/542 230
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
 

The return was made by John Withstandley but Thomas Withstandley, an invalid, was the attorney to Crewe.

 
T71/551 209
1913
[Name] Rock and Four Hills  
[Size] 486  
 

Listed in St Peter, property of Whittaker et al.

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