19th Apr 1839 | 106 Enslaved | £1749 11s 5d
Not listed in Parliamentary Papers. The ultimate destination of the compensation money is not yet clear.
T71/882: claim by Samuel W. Wattley as Receiver appointed by the Court of Chancery. Counterclaim by Thomas Budgen esq of Nutfield, Surrey, Lucretia Budgen, Cornelia Penelope Budgen spinsters of the same place and Danl Byam Matthew of St Kitts, trustee to the above, mortgagees for 500 years, £7000 principal money besides arrears of interest.
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Colony
Nevis
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Claim No.
13
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Estate
The Whim
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Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Trustee)
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Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Mortgagee)
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Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Mortgagee)
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Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Mortgagee)
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Awardee
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27th Nov 1782 - 8th Dec 1862
Wesleyan Minister, apparently sought to manumit his enslaved people for religious reasons
The Buff Bay plantation was a sugar estate next to the Buff Bay River, south of Charlestown in Jamaica. By 1839, the estate was 840 acres.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Nevis 13 (The Whim)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/25275 [accessed 27th January 2023].
