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Millikens

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1776 [EY] → Owner
James Milliken II

Tentative association only. The transmission of the estate is still under exploration.

- 1741 [EY] → Owner
James Milliken I

Tentative association only. The transmission of the estate is still under exploration.

1776 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Owner
Col. Robert John Napier

Tentative association only. The transmission of the estate is still under exploration

1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
James Milliken II
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir William Milliken Napier 8th Bart.

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 211 (Millikens)
£2,555 1S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of James Milliken, deceased, owner; returned by Jos Yelloly, attorney and manager.

 
T 71/253 220-225
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of James Milliken Esq, deceased, owner; returned by Robert Armstrong, attorney.

 
T 71/255 63
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Milliken's  
 

Return of James Milliken Esq, deceased owner; returned by Robert Armstrong, attorney; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

 
T 71/256 261-263
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 265  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Peter Basseterre as an estate of 265 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 154 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Sir Wm Napier Milliken, Bart.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Millikins  
 

Return of William Swanston, manager of the estate of the late James Milliken [sometimes spelt Millikin] now the property of Sir William Milliken Napier Bart., owner. St. Peter, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 87-88
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir William Milliken Napier Bart., owner; returned by Alexander McGregor, manager; formerly the estate of James Milliken, deceased

 
T 71/259 82
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir William M Napier, owner; returned by Alexander McGregor, manager.

 
T 71/260 113 to 114