Mount Pleasant

[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Size] 208  

According to Robert Haynes, the estate had 37 enslaved; according to Hughes-Queree there were 78. According to Hughes-Queree's reading of Robert Haynes' notes, it was acquired by marriage settlement: Robert Haynes of St. John marrying Thomasin Barrow, widow, née Clarke, The plantation had been formerly owned by her father, William Clarke and was 208 acres in St. Philip & St. John parishes. However, Vere Langford Oliver in Monumental Inscriptions..of Barbados shows George Barrow, Thomasin Barrow nee Clarke's brother-in-law, as the owner in 1790. Consistent with this, it appears to have been sold in 1802 by George Barrow of St. Philip to Hon. Miles Brathwaite of St. Philip for £34,000 and was then of 230 acres. [Robert Haynes's son, George Barrow Haynes, was born c. 1796 and could not have been the seller].

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations; Notes by General Robert Haynes, p. 15.

[Size] 230  

Sold to the Hon. Miles Brathwaite for £34,000. In 1816, the plantation, along with Three Houses and Palmers, which Brathwhaite also owned, suffered £8,700 damage [presumably as a result of Bussa's rebellion]. (Mount Pleasant was bounded by, among others, Palmers estate.) Number of enslaved not known.

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

[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 72(F) 51(M)  

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property.

T71/521 296-99

[Name] Mount Pleasant plantation  

Return of Miles Brathwaite, his own property. The numbers of enslaved reduced from 131 to 0 because: Births: 13; Deaths: 12; Carried to Palmers: 1; Sold to John Higginson: 131. Previously 131 enslaved.

T71/530 195-200

[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  

No previous return. Return of John Higginson, his own property. Of the 133 enslaved: 131 purchased from the Hon Miles Brathwaite. There were also 2 births.

T71/530 228-32

[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot) 92(F) 68(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  

Return of John Higginson, his own property. Previously 133 enslaved. Changes since 1823:
Births: 21; purchased from Charlotte Gowdey (q.v.): 5; purchased from William Oxley, Master in Chancery: 18; deaths: 19.

T71/536 271-2

Return of Richard Deane, Attorney, the property of John Higginson.

NB the changes recorded in the register entry:
Previous entry: 160
Sold to Thomas Maxwell Hinds: 168; sold to John Brathwaite: 2; deaths: 2; purchased of George Keyzar: 11; birth: 1.
However, there appears to be a mistake in the Register: the net number of enslaved allowing for the above changes is 0; the register gives 160.

See also Return of Josiah Heath, Attorney, the property of Thomas M. Hinds. Previously 4 enslaved. 168 enslaved purchased from John Higginson; 14 births; 11 deaths; 4 sold to others. Net = 171: T71/543, pp. 142-46.

T71/544 285-89

[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  

Return of Josiah Heath, Attorney, the property of Thomas Maxwell Hinds.

T71/549 289

[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Size] 317  

Listed in St Philip, property of Image et al.

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