UCL

Greenhill, St Mary Cayon

St Kitts

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
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Richard Wilson jun.

Inferred by LBS to have inherited from Richard Wilson sen.

- 1778 [EY] → Owner
Richard Wilson senior, of St Kitts

Inferred by LBS to have been one of the estates bequeathed by Richard Wilson sen.

1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
John William Delap Wilson

Shown as 'owner' in 1817 and 1821 and as 'owner and receiver' in 1825

1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Receiver
John Delap Wilson

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 113 (St Mary Cayon)
£2,208 7S 0D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] St Mary Cayon  
 

Return of The Hon John W D Wilson Esq, owner; returned by John James Julius, manager.

 
T 71/253 118 - 122
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John W D Wilson, owner. The estate is in St Mary Cayon.

 
T 71/255 127-128
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John W D Wilson, owner and receiver.

 
T 71/257 423-424
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 403  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Mary Cayon as an estate of 403 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 259 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John W.D. Wilson deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] Green Hill  
 

Return of John Delap Wilson, receiver; the estate is in St Mary Cayon.

 
T 71/258 149-150
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
[Name] Greenhill  
 

Return of J W D Wilson, owner; John Delap Wilson, receiver.

 
T 71/259 156-157
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Green Hill Estate  
 

Return of John Delap Wilson, owner and receiver. Two of the enslaved people listed are said to have been 'manumitted by government'. St. Mary Cayon

 
T 71/260 181