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Babbs

Barbados | St Lucy

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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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Leacock
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Not known
Rev. Hamble James Leacock
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Samuel Leacock
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Abraham Watson

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4820 (Babbs)
£2,013 16S 9D

Notes

Not named in the slave registers but listed at Babbs in the 1825 map.

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 63(F) 46(M)  
 

Return of Samuel Leacock, his own property.

 
T71/522 648-51
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Samuel Leacock senior, his own property. Previously 108 enslaved. 24 of the enslaved were given to the Rev. Hamble James Leacock (q.v.). There were also 8 births and 1 death.

 
T71/532 147-48
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
 

Return of Hamble Leacock, capacity not specified, the property of Samuel Leacock, an invalid. Previously 91 enslaved.

 
T71/537 277
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
 

Return of Abraham Watson, Executor, the property of the Estate of Samuel Leacock. NB that the 1829 return was in St Peter rather than in St Lucy as in 1823, 1826 and 1832.

 
T71/542 309
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
 

Return of Abraham Watson, Executor, the property of the Estate of Samuel Leacock.

 
T71/551 313
1913
[Name] Babbs  
[Size] 81  
 

Listed in St Lucy with 81 acres in the ownership of Peddler.

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