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:
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- 1823 [LA] → Owner
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1811 [EA] - → Owner
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1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Executrix
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1829 [EA] - 1849 [LA] → Owner
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Associated Claims (1) |
£3,955 14S 8D
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Notes |
Originally owned by the Gibbes family between 1674 and 1743, the estate was sold to Rowland Gibson in 1743. By 1811 it was owned by William Prescod, by 1825 by Edward Lake Hinds. Hinds continued ownership until his death and the sale in Chancery in 1849. |
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Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations. |
Estate Information (9) |
1811
Owned by William Prescod, 1811.
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 232(Tot) 116(F) 116(M)
[Name] [No name given] Return of John P. Williams, his own property.
T71/522 99-105
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)
Return of John Edwards Lewis, Attorney, the property of John P. Williams.
T71/526 124-30
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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)
[Size] 327 In a Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822, Williams was listed as owning 228 enslaved and 327 acres of land. The name of the estate (or estates) was not given. It is probable that (a) this was John Prescod Williams - the name in the Levy book is given as Jno. P. Williams and (b) that it refers to the Westmoreland estate.
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/7. Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)
[Name] [No name given] Return of John P. Williams, his own property. Previously 231 enslaved. Almost certainly this refers to John Prescod Williams and to the Westmoreland estate. By 1824-1826 the estate had passed to Edward Hinds.
T71/531 307-8
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1824
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot) 110(F) 105(M)
[Size] 654 Inventory of John Prescod Williams . Executrix: Mrs Sarah Prescod Williams. Dated: 30 January 1824.
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)
[Name] [No name given] Return of Edward Lake Hinds, his own property. No previous return. 211 enslaved purchased from Sarah P. Williams; 1 birth; 3 deaths.
T71/538 153-58
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)
Return of Edward Lake Hinds, his own property. Previously 209 enslaved: 25 sent to Mallards plantation.
T71/542 161-3
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)
[Name] Westmoreland Return of Edward Lake Hinds, his own property.
T71/551 158-9
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