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Simmon's

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
John Simmons

Simmons died in 1828.

1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executrix
Mehitabelle [or Mehetabel] Ann Simmons (née Edey)

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot) 130(F) 97(M)  
 

Return of John Simmons, his own property.

 
T71/521 507-13
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot)  
[Name] Simmons's  
 

Return of John Simmons, his own property. Numbers of enslaved included 3 removed from Four Square and 5 removed from Hanson's. Also included 1 "Absent in England" (Isaac, black, aged 18). Previously 268 enslaved.

 
T71/530 164-66
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 243(Tot)  
 

Return of John Simmons, his own property. Previously 261 enslaved. All changes accounted for by births/deaths.

 
T71/536 332-33
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Mehitabelle Ann Simmons, Executrix, the property of the estate of John Simmons, deceased.
See also claim Barbados 3149 for the later sale of enslaved to the Harrow and Four Square plantations.

 
T71/544 327-9