UCL

Buckley's

St Kitts | St George Basseterre

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
1755 [SY] - 1812 [EY] → Owner
Jannett Mathew (née Buckley)

Jannett Mathew willed an unnamed estate, almost certainly Buckley's, and the enslaved people on it, to her son Abednego Mathew in 1812. She had inherited the estate from her father William Buckley c. 1755, and apparently retained control of it through her separation from her husband in 1759.

1755 [SY] - 1795 [EY] → Not known
Abednego Mathew of Handley

Administrator of the will of William Buckley in 1755, and guardian of his wife Jennett nee Buckley whom he married in 1752 and from whom he separated in 1759. He reportedly died c. 1795. His status vis-à-vis the estate is unclear: certainly his estranged widow Jennett treated it as absolutely her own in her will of 1812.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Abednego Mathew

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 322 (Buckley's)
£1,717 9S 0D

Sources

https://www.historicstkitts.kn/places/buckley-s-estate

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the estate of Abednego Mathew, owner; returned by Thomas Chambers, attorney.

 
T 71/253 085 - 089
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Abednego Matthew Esq, owner; returned by Thomas Chambers, attorney.

 
T 71/255 64
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Buckley  
 

Return of Abednego Mathew Esq, owner; returned by James Tyson Skelton, manager.

 
T 71/256 257-258
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 186  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St George Basseterre as an estate of 186 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 163 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Abednego Mathew.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] Buckley  
 

Returned by Samuel Jones, manager of the estate of Abednego Mathew Esq, owner. St. George, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 82
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Abednego Mathew Esq, owner; returned by Samuel Jones , manager.

 
T 71/259 71-72
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Abednego Mathew, owner; returned by Samuel Jones, manager.

 
T 71/260 107