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Montpelier

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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] → Guardian
Joseph Lavicount
- 1824 [EY] → Owner
William Harman

In the compensation records, Joseph Lavicount claimed the compensation for the Montpelier and Mount estates 'in right of wife, guardian of the heirs of Wm. Harman.' William Harman was shown by Vere Langford Oliver as 'of Montpelier and Gobles', and as dying in 1824 with his wife remarrying with Joseph Lavicount.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 279 (Montpelier)
£1,708 11S 0D

Estate Information (6)

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1775
[Name] Murray's  
 

'Sarah, one of the three daus. and co-heirs of Major Charles Lloyd, married 1. Samuel Wickham, 2. John Blizard, and 3. William Murray Esq., and by her will dated 1 Dec. 1775 bequeathed Murray's to her nephew William Wickham Harman.' To date no will has been identified for Sarah Murray.

Vere Langford Oliver shows the estate of Murray's mutating into Montpelier, History of Antigua Vol.II p. 62 and p. 64.

 
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol.II p. 283.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Harman registered 190 enslaved people on an unnamed estate in 1817. Inferred to be Montpelier. In 1834, the compensation for both Montpelier and the Mount with a total of 198 enslaved people was paid to Joseph Lavicount in right of wife, guardian of the heirs of Wm. Harman. William Harman was described by Vere Langford Oliver as 'of Montpelier and Gobles': the latter appears in the 1817 Slave Registers with no identification of its beneficial owners but William Harman's will of 1823 shows it was the same estate as the Mount.

However, given the registration of 190 people in 1817 and the addition of 105 from Gobles in 1821, Harman must also have sold a number of enslaved people between 1817 and 1821.

 
T71/245 448-451
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Harman registered 215 enslaved people on an unnamed estate (or estates) in 1821. The total for 1821 included 105 by purchase of Estate called Gobles from Nihell and others. Inferred to be Montpelier and possibly the estate that appears in the compensation records as the Mount.

 
T71/246 376-381
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Harman registered 210 enslaved people on an unnamed estate (or estates) in 1824. Inferred to be Montpelier and possibly the estate that appears in the compensation records as the Mount.

 
T71/248 328-332
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Otto Baijer attorney to Margaret Spencer Harman under the will of William Harman deceased prop. Inferred to be Montpelier and possibly the estate that appears in the compensation records as the Mount.

 
T71/249 361-365
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] Montpelier [sic]  
 

Samuel Auchinleck agent for the estates of the late William Harman decd. Identified as Montpelier in the affidavit.

 
T71/250 367-369