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Sedge Pond

Barbados | St Andrew

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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
1757 [EA] - 1814 [LA] → Owner
Jonathan Worrell senior
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
William Bryant Worrell
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Edward Thomas

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4587
£2,338 1S 10D
Inferred association

Notes

Sedge Pond lay in the parishes of St. Andrew & St. Peter.
By 1735 William Bryant of St Michael had bought for £2,800 113 acres in St Andrew - Sedge Pond estate, though there appear to have been no enslaved at this point. In 1739-40 by several Common Pleas levies by the Provost Marshall on lands of the plantation of Adam Standford, deceased, William Bryant acquired another 100 acres.
c.1757: William Bryant, deceased, bequeathed all real estate to his grandson, Jonathan Worrell. By 1765 Sedge Pond was 235 acres and owned by Jonathan Worrell of England.
In 1814, when Worrell died, he left shares to his son Jonathan, and 1/7 to his son Charles (who sold it to his brother Edward in 1841).

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1765
[Size] 235  
 

c.1757: William Bryant, deceased, bequeathed all real estate to his grandson, Jonathan Worrell. By 1765 Sedge Pond was 235 acres and owned by Jonathan Worrell of England.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1804
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
 

In a Levy Book list for an unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], Barbados, 1804, Worrell was listed as owning 139 enslaved. It is possible that this referred to the Sedge Pond estate, St Andrew and probable that the return referred to this Jonathan Worrell rather than his son (q.v.).

 
Barbados Department of Archives, RB9/3/7. Levy Book for unidentified parish, [probably St Andrew] 1804.
1814
 

In 1814, when Jonathan Worrell senior died, he left shares to his son Jonathan, and 1/7 to his son Charles (who sold it to his brother Edward in 1841).

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 68(F) 55(M)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of William B. Worrell.

 
T71/522 351-54
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of William B. Worrell. Previously 122 enslaved.

 
T71/532 176-77
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of W. B. Worrell.

 
T71/537 214
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of W. B. Worrell.

 
T71/543 346
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of W. B. Worrell.

 
T71/550 349
1913
[Name] Sedge Pond  
[Size] 216  
 

Listed in St Andrew, property of Gill.

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