Associated People (8) |
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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:
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- 1796 [EY] → Joint owner
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- 1784 [EY] → Owner
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1784 [SY] - → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
As residuary heir of Thomas Lucas of Lee, Thomas Lucas Wheeler was heir to an unnamed estate [but almost certainly Lucas's] on St Kitts, subject to the annuity of Thomas Lucas's widow Eliza. Anthony Twist characterises her interest in the estate as a life-interest which he says she almost immediately sold after her re-marriage to John Julius Angerstein. |
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John Julius Angerstein's second wife Eliza Lucas was an annuitant on the Lucas estate. In a transaction not identified by LBS, Angerstein and his wife reportedly sold his wife's 'life-interest' shortly after their marriage. |
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1784 [SY] - → Annuitant
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1792 [SY] - → Owner
Joseph Paice was the legatee of Thomas Wheeler Lucas for an estate on St Kitts inferred by LBS to have been Lucas's. Paice assigned a half-share in the estate to John Beach by 1796. |
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£2,833 9S 2D
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Estate Information (7) |
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Return of Nathaniel Harden Esq and Mary Weymouth, owners; returned by Robert Cleghorn, attorney.
T 71/253 007 to 011
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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)
[Name] Lucas's Return of Nathaniel Hardin Sr and Mary Weymouth, joint owners of 'the late Thomas Lucas's estate"; returned by Robert Cleghorn, attorney.
T 71/255 50
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)
[Name] Lucas's Return of Nathaniel Harden and Mary Waymouth, "owners of the late Thomas Lucas's estate"; returned by William Johnson, attorney.
T 71/256 195-196
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1828
[Name] [no name given]
[Size] 198 [Crop] sugar Listed in St George Basseterre as an estate of 198 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 118 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Thomas Lucass.
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)
[Name] Thomas Lucas Return of William Johnson, attorney to Nathl Harden and Mary Weymouth, owners. St. George, Basseterre
T 71/258 55
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] Return of Nathaniel Harden and Mary Weymouth, owners; William Johnson, attorney; it is noted that the estate was previously owned by Thomas Lucas Esq deceased
T 71/259 69-70
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1834
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)
[Name] Lucas' Return of Nathaniel Harden and T. Lucas, owner; returned by William Johnson, attorney; Harden proprietor of estate of Lucus deceased; estate called Lucas' in index.
T 71/260 65 to 66
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1785 - 1854
Jamaican-born widow of a prominent slave-owner; resident in Britain following the death of her husband in 1818. Accused - and acquitted - of the cruel treatment of some enslaved people whom she brought to Britain with her.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Lucas's [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/3406 [accessed 8th November 2024].
