Mount Wilton

Owned by the Sharpe family.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Hon. William Sharpe owned 260 acres in St. Thomas and 220 acres in St. Joseph. He died in 1683. He bequeathed his plantation to his son Hon. William Sharpe, President of the Council, who sold it to William Walker in 1714.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Size] 617  

William Walker of Lincoln’s Inn, London, England sold to John Walter for £12,000 and the responsibility to pay annuity of £400 to William Sharpe and his wife Barbara Sharpe and £2666 to be paid to the daughters of William Sharpe as agreed between Walker and Sharpe, Mount Wilton plantation.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

'Will of Alexander Walker of St. James: Sir [sic] Alexander Walker bought Mount Wilton from his uncle, the brother-in-law of the testator, John Walter.' [It is not clear what relationship is described here: it appears that Alexander Walker who died in 1757 had purchased the estate from John Walter].

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Size] 400  

Mortgage. Alexander Walker of St. Thomas to Edward Lascelles of St. Michael who was acting as attorney and agent for Henry Lascelles of London, England, who was to pay to Abel Walter of England, the son and heir of John Walter, deceased, £5769 sterling (= £7500 currency), owed by Alexander Walker to Abel Walter. The mortgage of £7500 to be secured on Mount Wilton plantation, 400 acres, St. Joseph and St. Thomas, 208 enslaved, mansion house, sugar works.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Will of Alexander Walker of St. Thomas. Bequeathed Mount Wilton to his daughter Newton Walker. She married her cousin John Walter, son of Abel Walter in England.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

1773 Will of Newton Walter, wife of John Walter of Farley Hill, England. Bequeathed Mount Wilton to her husband.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Size] 620  

Will of John Walter of South Baddesley, Hampshire, England. Mount Wilton to be sold. John Walter owed £21,000 to Thomas and John Daniel, merchants of Bristol & London. The Daniels bought the plantation. They then sold it to Reynold Alleyne Ellcock for £26,000? of which £20,000 was a mortgage from Ellcock to Daniel. Walter also ordered the sale of Apes Hill (q.v.). Thomas Daniel had large mortgages on both estates.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 111(F) 79(M)  

Return of Reynold Alleyne Ellcock, his own property.

T71/522 144-49

Reynold Alleyne Ellcock, who was separated from his wife (who lived at Dayrell’s) was murdered. By his will Mount Wilton was bequeathed his to daughter Mary Ellcock.

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot)  

Return of John Frere Pilgrim, Executor, the property of the Estate of Reynold Alleyne Ellcock. Previously 214 enslaved. Removed from Belle View: 36; purchased of John Carrington: 37; births: 27; sold to John G. Wilson: 2; sold to Robert Shockness: 2; sold to Jeremy Jessamy: 1; deaths: 54; 'Executed for murder': 3. The latter were Jack Grig, Jeffrey and James. [Their ages are not given.]

T71/531 160-64

[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  

Return of Rev. John Frere Pilgrim, Executor, the property of the Estate of Reynold Alleyne Ellcock. Previously 252 enslaved. Changes:
Births: 27; purchased of John Higginson: 75; deaths: 42.

T71/538 50-53

[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  

Return of Rev. John Frere Pilgrim, Attorney, the property of the Estate of Reynold Alleyne Ellcock. Note that Pilgrim was listed as Attorney even though Ellcock had died in 1821. Note too that the previous return showed 312 enslaved. The difference accounted for by births and deaths rather than by sales or purchases.

T71/542 24

[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  

Return of Rev. John Frere Pilgrim, Executor, the property of the Estate of Reynold Alleyne Ellcock.

T71/551 28-30

[Name] Mount Wilton and Maynards  
[Size] 534  

LIsted in St Thomas, property of Harris.

Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.