Copt Hall

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner

Attorney and joint-owner in 1817 of a group of enslaved people later moved from the Copt Hall estate in 1819.

1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Other

Apparently a former joint-owner and certainly an owner and then mortgagee of a group of enslaved people moved from the Copt Hall estate in 1819.

1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Other

Apparently a former joint-owner and certainly an owner and then mortgagee of a group of enslaved people moved from the Copt Hall estate in 1819.


Associated Claims (2)

£294 19S 9D
£1,796 7S 7D

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 81(F) 88(M)  
[Name] River Claire, Fond Canee, and Bell Vue Estates  
 

Return of Bruno Lagarite, owner. Returned by the owner's surname rather than the names of the estates suggesting that although he owned the enslaved people listed, he does not seem to have owned the estates. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/338 139-144
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 18(F) 25(M)  
[Name] Copt Hall Estate  
 

Return of Antony B. Richardson, attorney and joint owner with an unnamed person. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/338 101-102
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot) 20(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Copt Hall  
 

Returned by C Court, attorney of T and J Richardson, previous owners; 31 enslaved people were 'sold to A. Cochrane Johnstone in September 1819 and by him placed on the Hope and Stewart Hall Estates, under mortgage to Thomas Richardson and Sir J Richardson'. St George.

 
T71/349 91 - 92
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot) 11(F) 4(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by C Court, executor of the estate of A B Richardson deceased, owner; 15 enslaved people were sold 'under mortgage, Thomas and Sir Jno Richardson to And C Johnstone in September 1819 and placed on the Hope and Stewart Estates'. St George.

 
T71/349 136 - 137
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 56(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by W T Rainy, executor of the estate of Bruno Laguritte; 15 enslaved people on the increase list were 'registered by the late Bruno Laguritte in the parish of St Paul [and there registered in 1817 on the Bernard Estate] now removed to this parish'; 8 enslaved people on the decrease list were said to belong to 'the estate of the late J B Perrier deceased'; 7 enslaved people 'were levied upon and sold by the Marshal'; 19 enslaved people became 'the property of Marriette and Marie Therese Laguritte'; 1 person was 'belonging to Mary Rainy'; 1 person was 'belonging to Charlotte Lagaritte'; and 7 enslaved people were 'taken by Edward Holmes as belonging to the estate of the late Michonne Bontant' . The enslaved were registered in 1817 as being on River Claire, Fond Canee, and Bell Vue estates. By 1832 they are on Copt Estate, but it is not possible to tell from the Slave Registers when this move occurred as an estate name is not given between 1820 and 1829. St George.

 
T71/349 120 - 122
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 43(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Return of Bruno Largarite, deceased owner; returned by William Thomas Rainey as executor. Five enslaved people are listed has formerly 'belonging to the estate of Anastasie Lagarite and are now belonging to Elizabeth Brunias'. St. George.

 
T71/358 85 - 86
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 40(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by W T Rainey, executor of the estate of Bruno Largarite deceased, owner. St. George.

 
T71/359 72
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 41(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by W Ths Rainy, executor of the estate of Bruno Largarite deceased, owner; includes a full return of the enslaved. St. George.

 
T71/361 146-149
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot) 38(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Copt Hall Estate  
 

Return of Bruno Largarite, deceased owner; returned by Wm. Thos. Rainy, executor . This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. The entry is returned by the owner's surname rather than the name of the estate. St. George.

 
T71/363 66