UCL

Belmont

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1783 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Sir William Lemon
1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Hon. Andrew Ross of St Vincent d. 1793
1808 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
James Byres of Tonley
1808 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Not known
Bridget Ross

Bridget Ross was party to two separate deeds, one of 1808 and one of 1809 concerning the Belmont estate: in the first she contracted to sell part of the land to James Lacroix; in the second she conveyed the estate to her son John Pemberton Ross.

1809 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Previous owner
Hon. Andrew Ross of St Vincent d. 1793
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Pemberton Ross

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 496 (Belmont)
£3,077 16S 3D

Notes

There were there estates named Belmont in the Salve Registers for St Vincent. Charles Shephard, from John Byres' 1776 Plan, showed Belmont as an extant estate against each of Lots No. 28 (95 acres, originally purchased by St Lawrence), No. 41 (39 acres, purchased by Coram), No. 81 (80 acres, purchased by Wilmot) and (as Belmont and Golden Vale) Lot No. 144 (471 acres, purchased by Byers). In addition, Belmont was shown among the lots leased to French settlers, against Lot No. 25 (135 acres leased to Michelle). The Belmont shown against Lot no. 144 was almost certainly that later owned by John Pemberton Ross. It is not yet clear how the other two Belmont estates in the Slave Registers relate to the early purchases.

Estate Information (8)

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1808
[Name] Belmont  
 

Bridget Ross and James Byres of Tonley were parties to an indenture of 01/08/1808 whereby Bridget Ross contracted to sell land to James Lacroix (q.v.) identified in the deed as part of the Belmont estate in St George on St Vincent. The deed recited that John Byres had owned 197 acres of land which he had in 1774 mortgaged to William Fraser of Inner Temple; that mortgage had become the property of James Byres of Tonley [the mechanism was not specified]. James Lacroix agreed to purchase 68 acres of the total parcel for £2443 2s 6d, of which he paid 1/3rd upfront, divided between Bridget Ross and James Byres with the majority to Bridget Ross. [Lacroix died very shortly after this deed was signed; the land he purchased appears to have become the Golden Vale estate].

Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 147-154.

1809
[Name] Belmont or Mount Scratch  
 

f. 260‐1 Entered 26 June 1809 Conveyance of an estate: an indenture made on 7 March 1809 between Bridget Ross (Saint Vincent), widow of the Hon. Andrew Ross, and John Pemberton Ross (esquire, Saint Vincent). Conveys Belmont (or Mount Scratch) estate, Saint George parish, Saint Vincent to John Pemberton Ross under the terms of the will of Andrew Ross, his father.

 
EAP 345 Kenneth Morgan Endangered Archives of St Vincent
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

John P Ross as owner.

 
T71/493 258-261
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot) 62(F) 53(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

John Pemberton Ross as owner [8 enslaved people purchased from Mrs Ann Dowers].

 
T71/495 124-125
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot) 73(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

John P Ross.

 
T71/497 88-89
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot) 74(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

John Pemberton Ross.

 
T71/497 80
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 73(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

John Pemberton Ross.

 
T71/499 49-50
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 66(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Belmont Estate  
 

Belmont Estate. The property of John Pemberton Ross. Statement sworn by himself [1 enslaved person declared as having obtained freedom under the third section of the Slavery Abolition Act, having been in England]. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 118 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 78-79