UCL

Lucas's

St Kitts | St George Basseterre

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
- 1796 [EY] → Joint owner
John Beach
- 1784 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Lucas of Lee, Kent
1784 [SY] - → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
Thomas Lucas Wheeler

As residuary heir of Thomas Lucas of Lee, Thomas Lucas Wheeler was heir to an unnamed estate [but almost certainly Lucas's] on St Kitts, subject to the annuity of Thomas Lucas's widow Eliza. Anthony Twist characterises her interest in the estate as a life-interest which he says she almost immediately sold after her re-marriage to John Julius Angerstein.

Other
John Julius Angerstein

John Julius Angerstein's second wife Eliza Lucas was an annuitant on the Lucas estate. In a transaction not identified by LBS, Angerstein and his wife reportedly sold his wife's 'life-interest' shortly after their marriage.

1784 [SY] - → Annuitant
Elizabeth or Eliza Angerstein formerly Lucas (née Payne)
1792 [SY] - → Owner
Joseph Paice

Joseph Paice was the legatee of Thomas Wheeler Lucas for an estate on St Kitts inferred by LBS to have been Lucas's. Paice assigned a half-share in the estate to John Beach by 1796.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Nathaniel Harden
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Waymouth (née Beach)

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 223 (Lucas's)
£2,833 9S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Nathaniel Harden Esq and Mary Weymouth, owners; returned by Robert Cleghorn, attorney.

 
T 71/253 007 to 011
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot)  
[Name] Lucas's  
 

Return of Nathaniel Hardin Sr and Mary Weymouth, joint owners of 'the late Thomas Lucas's estate"; returned by Robert Cleghorn, attorney.

 
T 71/255 50
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Lucas's  
 

Return of Nathaniel Harden and Mary Waymouth, "owners of the late Thomas Lucas's estate"; returned by William Johnson, attorney.

 
T 71/256 195-196
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 198  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St George Basseterre as an estate of 198 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 118 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Thomas Lucass.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Thomas Lucas  
 

Return of William Johnson, attorney to Nathl Harden and Mary Weymouth, owners. St. George, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 55
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Nathaniel Harden and Mary Weymouth, owners; William Johnson, attorney; it is noted that the estate was previously owned by Thomas Lucas Esq deceased

 
T 71/259 69-70
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Lucas'  
 

Return of Nathaniel Harden and T. Lucas, owner; returned by William Johnson, attorney; Harden proprietor of estate of Lucus deceased; estate called Lucas' in index.

 
T 71/260 65 to 66