UCL

Mount Healthy Estate; Mountain Estate; Lower Estate; Cane Garden Estate; Northside Mountain Estate; Turnbulls Mountain Estate

Virgin Islands | Tortola

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1818 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Ruth Lettsom formerly Georges (née Hodge)

Associated Claims (1)

Virgin Islands 257
£8,661 2S 5D
This is inferred by the number of enslaved people. The interaction between Ruth Lettsom's will, the announced sale of the estates in 1824/5 and the inferred role of Reid Irving as mortgagees-in-possession has not yet been analysed.

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (4)

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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 653(Tot) 382(F) 270(M)  
[Name] Mount Health Estate; Great Mountain Estate; Lower Estate; Cane Garden Bay Estate; North side Mountain Estate; Turnbull's Mountain Estate  
 

Owner: Estates Mrs Ruth Lettsom deceased in the lawful possession of William Rogers Isaacs as Receiver in Chancery; encloses a petition showing that John Cotton Tupper, who was the attorney of the estate's previous receiver William Payne Georges, made four mistakes in the previous return concerning enslaved people attached to the estate; Tortola

 
T 71/372 720-724
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 659(Tot) 382(F) 277(M)  
[Name] Mount Healthy Estate; Mountain Estate; Lower Estate; Cane Garden Estate; Northside Mountain Estate; Turnbulls Mountain Estate  
 

Owner: Estates of Ruth Lettsom deceased in the lawful possession of William Rogers Isaacs as attorney to the mortgagees in possession; Tortola

 
T 71/373 191-196
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 628(Tot) 356(F) 272(M)  
[Name] Lower Estate; Mountain Estate; Cane Garden Bay Estate; Mount Healthy Estate; Turnbulls Mountain Estate; Northside Mountain Estate;  
 

Owner: Estate of Mrs. Ruth Lettsom deceased in the lawful possession of James Deans Roger as attorney to the mortgagees in possession; Tortola

 
T 71/374 77-86
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 607(Tot) 336(F) 271(M)  
 

Owner: Estates of Mrs Ruth Lettsom deceased in the possession of James Dean Roger as attorney to the mortgagees in possession; Tortola

 
T 71/375 267