UCL

Nantons

Antigua

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
- 1834 [LA] → Not known
Godschall Johnson I

The background to Godschall Johnson's association with Nantons is still being investigated, but he appears to have been a creditor of the estate when it was owned by the Young family. His estate was shown as owner from 1832 onwards.

1773 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Owner
Sir William Young 1st Bart.

Presumably inherited through his mother Margaret nee Nanton.

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Not known
Sir William Lawrence Young 3rd Bart.

Shown first directly and then through his executors as 'in possession' between 1817 and 1828.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 2 (Nantons)
£852 0S 3D

Estate Information (7)

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1773
[Name] Nantons  
 

Valued at £10,420 in 1773.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017, sourced to National Archives, Treasury Solicitor's papers TS 11/214-7 (notes this is a major collection of papers on Young's affairs assembled for the prosecution of him for the very large debt he owed as chief commissioner for the sale of crown land in the Ceded Islands).
1789
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot) 25(F) 41(M)  
[Crop] sugar, pasturage  
 

Presumably inherited through Sir William Young's mother Margaret nee Nanton. Mortgaged for £10,000 to Richard Ottley. In 1789 worked by 41 enslaved men and boys and 25 women and girls, producing 40 hogsheads of sugar. 205 acres of pasture.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017, sourced to National Archives, Treasury Solicitor's papers TS 11/214-7 (notes this is a major collection of papers on Young's affairs assembled for the prosecution of him for the very large debt he owed as chief commissioner for the sale of crown land in the Ceded Islands).
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Nantons  
 

The Hon. Thomas Norbury Kerby as attorney to Sir William Young and as trustee under a trust deed for receiving a debt to the representatives of Godschall Johnson deceased.

 
T71/245 184-185
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot)  
[Name] Nanton's  
 

George Ick attorney to Sir William Young bart. in possession belonging to Nanton's

 
T71/246 240-241
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot)  
[Name] Nantons  
 

John Farr attorney to Sir William Lawrence Young in possession Nanton's Estate

 
T71/248 250-251
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Nanton's  
 

John Farr attorney to John Jolliffe Tufnet executor of Sir William Lawrence Young deceased for Nanton's Estate proprietor.

 
T71/249 815-816
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Nanton's  
 

John Farr lessee under executors of Godschal Johnson deceased on Nantons proprietors.

 
T71/250 258-259