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Westmoreland

Barbados | St James

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
- 1823 [LA] → Owner
John Prescod Williams
1811 [EA] - → Owner
William Prescod
1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Executrix
Sarah Prescod Williams (née Lewis)
1829 [EA] - 1849 [LA] → Owner
Edward Lake Hinds

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4849 (Westmoreland)
£3,955 14S 8D

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.

Sources

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

Estate Information (9)

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1811
 

Owned by William Prescod, 1811.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
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
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot)  
 

Return of John Edwards Lewis, Attorney, the property of John P. Williams.

 
T71/526 124-30
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.
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
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.
Total enslaved: Men: 47, Women: 67, Boys: 58, Girls: 43.
Value of enslaved: £13,285 0 0d.
Value by group: Men: £3,640; Women: £4,160; Boys: £3,410; Girls: £2,075.
Total estate value: £28,081 15 0d.
Land included 327 acres with crop, buildings etc; 150 cane land; 54 provision land; 123 acres pasturage.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
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.
See also the distinct Return in 1826 of Sarah Prescod Williams, Executrix, the property of the Estate of John Prescod Williams, deceased, though that shows 220 enslaved being sold to Hinds.

 
T71/538 153-58
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
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Westmoreland  
 

Return of Edward Lake Hinds, his own property.

 
T71/551 158-9