Adventure / Summer Vale

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Associated People (11)

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
- 1803 [EY] → Owner
- 1810 [EY] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
1820 [EA] - → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Administratrix
1823 [EA] - → Previous owner
1823 [EA] - → Other
1829 [EA] - 1842 [LA] → Owner
1831 [EA] - → Not known

Associated Claims (1)

£2,388 11S 9D

Notes

Not named in the slave registers but listed as Adventure in the ownership of Daniel Grogan on the 1825 map.


Estate Information (12)

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1803
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Adventure  
[Size] 98  
 

Inventory of Jacob Belgrave senior lodged in BDA in 1803.

 
Jerome S. Handler, The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados (1974) p. 121.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Adventure  
[Size] 144  
 

Inventory of John Thomas Belgrave lodged in BDA in 1811.

 
Jerome S. Handler, The Unappropriated People: Freedmen in the Slave Society of Barbados (1974) p. 121.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 45(F) 53(M)  
 

Return of Jacob Belgrave, Executor, the property of the Estate of John Thomas Belgrave, deceased.

 
T71/521 345-47
1820
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Jacob Belgrave of slaves the property of the estate of John Thomas Belgrave deceased to which he is qualified executor. Most sold to Thomas Belgrave by Court of Chancery, some to Jacob Belgrave). Resulting total = 0 enslaved people.

 
T71/525 389
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot) 49(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Adventure  
 

Thomas Belgrave of slaves his own property - Adventure. Most purchased from Court of Chancery, estate of J.T. Belgrave

 
T71/521 345
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 2(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph Collymore, the property of the estate of Thomas Belgrave, deceased, to which Sarah Jane Collymore (née Belgrave) the Administratrix. Recorded here because previously 95 enslaved. Changes in the enslaved numbers since 1820 were:

Births: 3; death: 1; Reclaimed by the Executor of John Belgrave: 2; Devolved to Joseph Collymore in right of his wife: 5; sold by William Oxley, Master in Chancery, to William Coppin: 88. [See distinct return from William Coppin.]

 
T71/530 40-43
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
 

Return of William Coppin, his own property. Previously 26 enslaved. Of the changes since 1820, 84 enslaved were purchased from William Oxley, Master in Chancery, the property of the late Thomas Belgrave (q.v.). The Register record was amended on p. 183 to 114 enslaved from 111 (the total given on p. 57). This was because 3 enslaved had been 'omitted to be Registered during the Registration and permission granted'.

 
T71/530 54-7; 183
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
 

Return of William Coppin, his own property. Previously 111 enslaved.

 
T71/536 219-20
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Summer Vale  
 

Return of George Abel Dean, his own property.
Previous return = 9; purchased of William Coppin, 73; of Elizabeth Innis, 15; of Margaret A. Jones, 1; of Joseph Collymore, 6; at Marshall's yard, the property of Rowland Gibson, 1; births 10; deaths, 6.

 
T71/544 249-51
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Size] 152  
 

William Coppin sold The Adventure to George Abel Deane of St. Philip for £17,250.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1831
 

Edward Belgrave released George Abel Deane from a mortgage on the Adventure plantation.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given] [Summer Vale]  
 

Return of George Abel Dean, his own property.

 
T71/549 251