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Sion Hill

Barbados | St James

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1815 [LA] → Owner
William Prescod
1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Executor
William Hinds Prescod
1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Executor
John Gay Goding
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Hinds Prescod
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
John Gay Goding

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4307
£3,122 12S 6D
Note that the numbers of enslaved in this claim differ from the return of enslaved in the 1834 Slave Register. But this claim had no estate name attached whereas the 1834 return refers to the Sion Hill plantation.

Notes

The Sion Hill Plantation is (as at 2014) a family run business of 5 rental apartments, an artist’s studio and 100 acres of agricultural land: Sion Hill, 2014

Estate Information (7)

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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 65(F) 52(M)  
[Size] 1444  
 

Inventory of William Prescod. Executors: William Hinds Prescod [the nephew of William Prescod] and John Gay Goding. Dated: 19 January 1815.
Total enslaved: Men: 28, Women: 38, Boys: 24, Girls: 27.
Enslaved: both boys and girls include 1 infant each.
Inventory also included: Horses: 2, Cattle: 64, Sheep: 55, Hogs: 20.
Value of enslaved: £10,435 0 0d.
Total estate value: £19,457 10 0d.
Acreage: 100 acres cane land; 412 acres provision land; 932 acres of waste land etc.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 68(F) 55(M)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/522 80-3
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod. Previously 128 enslaved.

 
T71/531 299
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod. Previously 134 enslaved.

 
T71/538 173-4
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot)  
[Name] Sion Hill  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/542 179
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/551 168
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Attorney, the property of William Hinds Prescod.

 
T71/562 93-7