UCL

Hermitage Estate

Montserrat

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
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
Dudley Semper senior

Shown as trustee in 1817, 'in possession under an agreement to purchase' between 1821 to 1828 and owner in 1831.

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 221 (Hermitage Estate)
£2,162 8S 9D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Returned by Dudley Semper, attorney to John Payne, trustee to Hermitage estate.

 
T 71/447 371-377
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Returned by Dudley Semper in possession of the [enslaved people] upon and belonging to the Hermitage estate in this island under an agreement entered into for the absolute purchase thereof.

 
T 71/448 209-213
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Returned by Dudley Semper, in possession under an agreement to purchase the enslaved people on the estate; 32 enslaved people on the estate died between 1821 and 1824.

 
T 71/449 118-121
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of Dudley Semper in posssession of the enslaved upon the estate under an agreeent to purchase them; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney.

 
T 71/450 245-249
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of Dudley Semper, owner; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney.

 
T 71/451 30-34