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Mansion

St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
1780 [SY] - → Trust beneficiary
Dr George Charles Julius
1780 [SY] - 1823 [EY] → Annuitant
Jane Smith Julius (née Edwards)

Annuitant for £300 a year, presumably under the terms of her marriage settlement. See will of John Julius for details.

- 1780 [LA] → Owner
William Julius

In his will of 1813, John Julius (q.v.), the brother of William Julius, said the he had purchased Mansion, which had belonged to William, subject to an annuity of £300 p.a. to Jane Smith Julius [nee Edwards], William's widow. It is not yet clear when this transaction took place. William died in 1780 and his residuary legatee was his youngest son Dr George Charles Julius (1775-1866).

- 1813 [EY] → Owner
John Julius
1813 [SY] - 1815 [EY] → Owner
John Julius junior
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
John Julius
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Swindell

The estate was delivered to John Swindell 01/02/1826

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 688 (Mansion)
£1,834 2S 6D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Julius, deceased, owner; returned by John R Taylor, manager; the estate names are not given in this register, but have been identified using later registers as Mansion, Hope and Colhoun estates. Also see the entry for Hope and Colhoun.

 
T 71/253 508 -519
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion  
 

Return of John Julius Esq, deceased, owner; John Dawson , manager.

 
T 71/255 55-57
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion  
 

Return of John Julius, deceased owner; John Julius Kerie, executor; 4 enslaved people were removed from the estate 'being the property of Jedediah Kerie'.

 
T 71/256 224-226
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion  
 

Returned by John Julius Kerie, executor of the estate of John Julius deceased;133 enslaved people were on the estate on 1 Feb 1826 when the estate was delivered to John Swindell.

 
T 71/258 346
1828
[Name] Mansion  
[Size] 179  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 179 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 106 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Swindell.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion  
 

Return of the estate of John Swindell Esq, owner; returned by William Jordan, manager; 133 enslaved people were received with the estate by John Swindell Esq on Feb. 1st 1826; there is another entry for this estate on folio 346. Christ Church, Nichola Town

 
T 71/258 135-139
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion  
 

Return of John Swindell Esq, owner; returned by William Jordan, manager.

 
T 71/259 136-137
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Mansion Estate  
 

Return of John Swindell, owner.

 
T 71/260 167