Brothersons

Estate Details


Associated People (5)

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
- 1780 [EY] → Owner

Inferred by LBS to have been the estate entailed by Lewis Brotherson senior on his son Lewis Brotherson jun. in his will made in 1775, entered in 1780 and proved in 1783.

1828 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
1780 [EA] - 1802 [LA] → Tenant-for-life

Inferred by LBS to have been the estate entailed by Lewis Brotherson senior on his son Lewis Brotherson jun. in his will made in 1775, entered in 1780 and proved in 1783.

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,566 5S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Brotherson's  
 

Return of George Henry Burt and Arch. Paull, joint owners; 79 enslaved people were acquired: 2 from the executors of William Pitt deceased, 1 from Thomas Woodcock, 2 from George Henry Burt, 7 from the estate of Adm. George Losack, 57 at marshal's sale the property of the estate of Adm. George Losack, 1 from the executors of John R Taylor, and 9 at the sale of the effects of the Rev William Davies deceased.

 
T 71/256 290-294
1828
[Name] Brothersons  
[Size] 275  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Paul Capisterre as an estate of 275 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 205 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) George Henry Burt.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Brotherson's  
 

Return of George Henry Burt, owner. St. Paul, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 20-21
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Brothersons  
 

Return of George H Burt, owner.

 
T 71/259 13
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Brothersons Estate  
 

Return of George Henry Burt, owner.

 
T 71/260 34 to 35