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Haggats

Barbados | Christ Church

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
- 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
John Simpson
1758 [EA] - → Owner
Francis Ford of Lears

This estate is not mentioned in the will of Francis Ford, unless under another name

1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executrix
Margaret Ann Simpson (née Forte or Foote)

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3404 (Haggats)
£2,369 3S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot) 58(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Haggatt  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 3 whites, and blacks as: men: 34; women: 39; boys: 40; girls: 19. [It is not clear why only 3 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot) 44(F) 38(M)  
 

Inventory of John Simpson deceased. Executrix: Mrs Margaret Ann Simpson. Dated: 17 January 1822.
Total enslaved: Men: 22, Women: 29, Boys: 16, Girls: 15.
Value of land etc.: £6,412 10 0d
Total estate value: [It is not clear what the total valuation is, either of enslaved or of the estate as a whole.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
 

Return of Margaret A. Simpson, Executrix, the property of the estate of John Simpson, deceased. Previously 104 enslaved. There were 4 enslaved who reverted to Margaret A. Simpson, 'being her own property'.

 
T71/529 769-70
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
 

Return of Margaret Ann Simpson, Executrix the property of the estate of John Simpson, deceased. Previously 98 enslaved.

 
T71/536 164-5
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
 

Return of Margaret Ann Simpson, Executrix the property of the estate of John Simpson, deceased.

 
T71/544 173
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] Haggatts  
 

Return of Margaret Ann Simpson, Executrix, the property of the estate of John Simpson, deceased.

 
T71/549 168