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Johnson's Estate

St Kitts | Trinity Palmetto Point

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
1778 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Anthony Johnson

John Baker heard a case in 1778 involving David Chollet and Anthony Johnson's estate, identified by the editor of the diary as Johnson's in Palmetto Point, which Anthony Johnson had reportedly inherited from John Johnson senior as residuary heir under the will of the latter of 1755.

1781 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
David Chollet

David Chollet's will made and proved in 1781included his mortgage over the plantation and effects of Anthony Johnson among his bequests.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Previous owner
John Rawlins of St Kitts
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Sarah Johnson Rawlins (née Hart)
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Hart Rawlins
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Attorney
James Davoren
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Sir Anthony Hart
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
William Manning
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Frederick Manning
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
John Lavicount Anderdon

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 405 (Johnson's Estate)
£2,623 7S 10D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Return of John Rawlins, deceased and Mrs Sarah Rawlins, his widow, owners; returned by James Blair, manager.

NB this is inferred to be Johnsons

 
T71/253 282-286
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Johnston  
 

Return of John Hart Rawlins Esq, owner; returned by Thomas Gilfillan, manager; the estate spelt Johnson's in the index.

 
T 71/255 95-96
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Johnson's  
 

Return of John Hart Rawlins, owner.

 
T 71/256 318-319
1828
[Name] Johnsons  
[Size] 176  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in Trinity Palmetto Point as an estate of 176 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 100 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Hart Rawlins.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Johnsons  
 

Return of William Manning Frederick Manning, John Lavicount Anderdon and Anthony Hart, mortgagees in possession of the estate of John Hart Rawlins, owner; returned by their attorneys James Davoren and John Swindell; 164 enslaved people were received by the mortgagees. Trinity, Palmetto Point

 
T 71/258 69-74
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Johnson's  
 

Return of William Manning , Frederick Manning, John Lavicount Anderdon, and Antony Hart, mortgagees in possession of the estate of John Hart Rawlins, owner; returned by James Davoren, attorney to the mortgagees.

 
T 71/259 104-105
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Johnsons Estate  
 

Return of John Hart Rawlins, owner.

 
T 71/260 129