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Belle Vue

Virgin Islands | Tortola

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
1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Arthur Hodge

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (5)

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1822
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot) 24(F) 15(M)  
[Name] Bellevue Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of Arthur Hodge deceased in the possession of Duncan McIntosh as renter; schedule B (increase) includes 39 enslaved people who were rented on 10 July 1820 from Mark Dyer French Esquire attorney to the executors of Arthur Hodge deceased, the same people were registered in schedule A (original return of 1818) by the former renter Bezaliel Chalwill deceased.

 
T 71/371 466-467
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 32(Tot) 18(F) 14(M)  
[Name] Belle Vue Estate  
 

Owner: Heirs of Arthur Hodge deceased in the lawful possession of Mark Dyer French as attorney to William West, the acting executor; returned by Henry Wheatley as manager

 
T 71/372 624-625
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 17(F) 14(M)  
[Name] Belle Vue Estate  
 

Return of Henry Cecil Hodge in the lawful possession of Charles Canes Bryan Sr. and Charles Cane Bryan Jr., as Renters who began their tenancy on 1 June 1828; Encloses a petition from manager Hugh Jamison noting that Henry Weatley, the previous manager of the estate (the property of the heirs of the late Arthur Hodge Esq. deceased), had made a mistake in the 1825 return stating that an enslaved woman named Nancy had died even though she was still alive; Tortola

 
T 71/373 252-254
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot) 16(F) 14(M)  
 

Return of Henry Cecil Hodge, owner; Tortola

 
T 71/374 488
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot) 16(F) 11(M)  
 

Return of Henry Cecil Hodge, owner; returned by his estate manager Benjamin Curtis; Tortola

 
T 71/375 294