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Stoney Hill

Nevis | St George Gingerland

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
- 1824 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
James Wildman of Fenchurch Street

Auction sale in 1824 as a result of the bankruptcy of James Wildman, of Fen-court Fenchurch St., Merchant of a debt of £8000 to James Wildman secured on the Stoney Hill and Deodand estates, subject to a prior mortgage charge of £6000, and a debt of £15,000 or thereabouts due on open account to James Wildman by Henry Rawlins and Wm. Worthington Wickes, the mortgagers of the plantations. Times 11/12/1824 p. 4.

- 1842 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Rowland Mitchell

Sale in 1842 of a debt of £21,143 13s sterling and upwards secured on Stoney-hill and Deodand estates, as a result of the bankruptcy of Rowland Mitchell. Rowland Mitchell had presumably acquired the debt: in an earlier sale in 1824 the debt was sold by the assignees of James Wildman. Times 28/04/1842 p. 12.

1781 [SY] - → Owner
George Webbe senior of Nevis

Articles of Agreement dated 05/09/1781 between George Webbe senior of Stratford Wiltshire and George Webbe junior of Stoney Hill in Nevis recorded the division of estates on Nevis between the two men [who were uncle and nephew], after George Webbe junior had inherited under the will of his uncle Josiah Webbe (who with his brother George Webbe senior of Stratford had inherited as tenants in common under the will of their father, also George Webbe). At the instigation of the younger man, the two men had previously split the Stoney Hill estate. Under the new indenture of 1781, George Webbe senior took the New River estate (243 acres) and George Webbe junior the Deodand estate (194 acres), with an adjustment of £500 to reflect the higher value of the New River estate. It has not been possible to date to map these estates with complete confidence onto the estates named Stoney Hill and New River in later sources, but by inference the portion of Stoney Hill that went to George Webbe junior was that combined with Deodand that was mortgaged to James Wildman in the early 1800s. [George Webbe junior of Nevis was the man later known as George Webbe senior of Nevis]. Common Records 1783-1785, British Library, EAP794/1/1/19, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-19 pp. 1-12.

- 1767 [EY] → Joint owner
Josiah Webbe of Stoney Hill
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Joint owner
William Worthington Wilkes
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Rawlins
1825 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
William Worthington Wilkes
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
James Davoren

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 293 (Stoney Hill)
£3,079 10S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1781
[Name] Stoney Hill  
 

Articles of Agreement dated 05/09/1781 between George Webbe senior of Stratford Wiltshire and George Webbe junior of Stoney Hill in Nevis recorded the division of estates on Nevis between the two men [who were uncle and nephew], after George Webbe junior had inherited under the will of his uncle Josiah Webbe (who with his brother George Webbe senior of Stratford had inherited as tenants in common under the will of their father, also George Webbe). At the instigation of the younger man, the two men had previously split the Stoney Hill estate. Under the new indenture of 1781, George Webbe senior took the New River estate (243 acres) and George Webbe junior the Deodand estate (194 acres), with an adjustment of £500 to reflect the higher value of the New River estate. It has not been possible to date to map these estates with complete confidence onto the estates named Stoney Hill and New River in later sources, but by inference the portion of Stoney Hill that went to George Webbe junior was that combined with Deodand that was mortgaged to James Wildman in the early 1800s.

Common Records 1783-1785, British Library, EAP794/1/1/19, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-19 pp. 1-12.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] Stoney Hill  
 

Return of Hon Henry Rawlins and William Worthington Wilkes Esq., joint owners; returned by E L Howe; the estate is in the parish of St. George Gingerland.

This return is followed by that of Mrs. Sarah Drew; returned by E L Howe; two of the enslaved people listed are on Stoney Hill Estate and are said to be "the former property of the Hon. Henry Rawlins' Hutchinsons Estate in Saint Kitts."

 
T71/364 105-109
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Stoney Hill  
 

Return of Henry Rawlins and William Worthington Wilkes, joint owners; returned by E. L. Howe; included in the total are seven enslaved people belonging to Elizabeth Rawlins and two enslaved people belonging to Rosetta Rawlins.

 
T71/365 244-246
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Stoney Hill  
 

Return of William Worthington Wilkes, owner; no total is given, but there are 15 less enslaved people on the estate than there were in the return of 1822.

 
T71/366 169-170
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Stony Hill  
 

Return of W W. Wilkes, owner

 
T71/367 162-164
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Stoney Hill  
 

Return of William W Wilkes, owner

 
T71/368 206-207
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Stony Hill  
 

Return of James Davoren, executor; returned by H R Davoren

 
T71/369 206-207