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Clay Hill

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

Estate Details

Associated People (11)

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
- 1757 [EY] → Owner
Anthony Hodges I
- 1799 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Anthony Hodges III
- 1803 [EY] → Owner
Jeremiah Hodges
1757 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Anthony Hodges II
1757 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
Anthony Hodges III
1803 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Benjamin Amory Esq.

The Slave Register of 1822 notes that he is deceased.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
James Friend Sharry
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
James Friend Sharry
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Executor
James Friend Sharry
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John James Amory
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John James Amory

The 1825, 1828, 1831 and 1834 Slave Registers show Amory as owner.

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 301 (Clay Hill)
£2,216 12S 7D

Estate Information (9)

What is this?

1803
[Size] 136  
 

On 29 October 1803, Benjamin Amory the younger bought an unnamed estate from Jeremiah Hodges 'by indenture of 6 parts'. The 136 acre plantation was bought for £14,000, which Amory pledged to pay off by 1811. Oliver's The History of the island of Antigua outlines the ownership of the estate by the Hodges family going back to 1757 when Anthony Hodges of Boulney Court in Oxfordshire made his will.

Vere Langford Oliver The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time, vol. 2, Michell and Hughes, 1896, p 81. Vere Langford Oliver Caribbeana: Being Miscellaneous Papers Relating to the History, Genealogy, Topography, and Antiquities of the British West Indies vol. 1, London: Michell Hughes and Clarke, 1910, p 81.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Benjamin Amory, owner; returned by James F Sharry, attorney and manager.

 
T 71/253 042 to 045
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] No Name Given  
 

Return of Benjamin Amory, deceased, owner; returned by James Friend Sharry , executor.

 
T 71/255 1
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] No Name Given  
 

Return of John James Amory, owner.

 
T 71/256 13-14
1828
[Name] Clay Hill  
[Size] 132  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Cane Land 102.2.0
Other Land 30.1.8
Total Land 132.3.8

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Hill  
 

Return of John James Amory, owner. St. Peter, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 4 to 5
1828
[Name] Clay Hill  
[Size] 132  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Peter Basseterre as an estate of 132 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 102 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Amory.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Hill Estate  
 

Return of John James Amory, owner.

 
T 71/259 3 to 4
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Clay Hill  
 

Return of John James Amory, owner.

 
T 71/260 2