UCL

Mount Pleasant

Antigua

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
Alexander Willock
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Norbury Kerby
1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Administrator
Francis Willock
1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
Capt. John Lindsey R.N.
1824 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
George Savage Martin

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 24 (Mount Pleasant)
£1,842 17S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby attorney to Francis Willock administrator to the estates of Alexander Willock decd., with the will annexed. No estate was given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby identified the estate as Mount Pleasant.

 
T71/245 219-222
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Capt. John Lindsey RN proprietor. 116 by purchase from Francis Willock Esq. Inferred to be Mount Pleasant by corroborating detail (the number of slaves not however an exact match) in the 1824 Slave Register. It appears John Lindsey bought the estate after 1817 but defaulted before 1824.

 
T71/246 265-267
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

George Savage Martin, attorney to Francis Willock, administrator to the will of Alexander Willock deceased with the will annexed. This was one of two estates (the other was Blizard's, under which the enslaved people for 1824 are entered separately) in a single entry with sub-totals. A note on p. 464 says the previous registration had been of 115 [enslaved people] by John Lindsey the then proprietor of the plantation but since then recovered in a Court of Chancery for non-payment to the purchase money.

 
T71/248 463-466
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

George Savage Martin, attorney to Francis Willock, administrator of the estate of Alexander Willock deceased. Inferred to be a consolidated return for Mount Pleasant and Blizard's.

 
T71/249 774-778
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

George Savage Martin, attorney to Frank Gore Willock, Esq. The estate is identified as Mount Pleasant in the affidavit.

 
T71/250 691-693