UCL

Red Gate

St Kitts | St Paul Capisterre

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
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Previous owner
John Willett Willett senior, formerly Adye

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 747 (Red Gate)
£4,275 6S 4D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Red Gate Estate  
 

Return of John W Willett Esq, deceased, owner; returned by Peter Fraser Grant, manager.

 
T 71/253 521- 527
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Willett Willett Esq, deceased, owner; returned by William Stephens, attorney.

 
T 71/255 129-131
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Redgate  
 

Return of John Willett Willett, owner; returned by William Stephens, attorney.

 
T 71/257 422-423
1828
[Name] Red Gate  
[Size] 381  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Paul Capisterre as an estate of 381 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 273 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Willett Willett.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Red Gate  
 

Returned by William Stephens, attorney to R W Willett, owner. St. Paul, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 118-119
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Red Gate  
 

Return of John Willett Willett Esq, owner; returned by Robert Claxton, attorney.

 
T 71/259 147-149
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Henry Ralph Willett, owner; returned by Robert Claxton, attorney.

 
T 71/260 176 to 177