UCL

Revolution Hall

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
Joint owner
William Glenn Ponsonby

A group of Ponsonbys, presumably brothers, were the heirs to Dr William Glenn on Revolution Hall. William Glenn Ponsonby was the son of one of them, William Ponsonby.

1808 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Not known
Henry Bengough

Probably co-trustee for the mortgagees

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
William Glenn
1822 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Previous owner
William Glenn

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 555A (Revolution Hall)
£2,860 12S 11D

Estate Information (7)

What is this?

1809
 

'f. 106‐36 Entered 26 April 1809 Transfer of mortgage: an indenture made on 21 October 1808 between i) Edward Protheroe, Robert Claxton and Philip Protheroe (merchants and copartners, Bristol) and ii) Henry Bengough (esquire and alderman of Bristol) and Matthew Wright (merchant, Bristol). The Protheroes & Claxton sell [presumably a mortgage over] Rivulet estate, Saint George parish, Saint Vincent, 162 acres plus 45 acres of pasture in the valley of Marriaqua, Saint George parish. Also sold is Revolution Hall plantation, Saint George parish, Saint Vincent, 146 acres, to Bengough and Wright. The buildings, utensils and slaves of these estates are included in the transactions. Numerous financial details given in this long document. Two schedules of the names of the slaves on Rivulet and Revolution Hall plantations are included.'

Prof. Kenneth Morgan, EAP345: A survey of the endangered archives of St Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era http://eap.bl.uk/downloads/eap345_survey.pdf [accessed 31/03/2017].

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

William Glenn as owner.

 
T71/493 238-240
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 54(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

The heirs of William Glenn, deceased, by Alexander McBarnet.

 
T71/495 115
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 53(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

Revolution Hall Estate. Statement sworn by John Ponsonby.

 
T71/497 82
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot) 56(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

Revolution Hall Estate. Statement sworn by John Ponsonby.

 
T71/497 65-66
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot) 56(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

Revolution Hall Estate. Statement sworn by John Ponsonby.

 
T71/499 74
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 52(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Revolution Hall Estate  
 

Revolution Hall Estate. The property of John, Taylor and George Ponsonby, heirs and devisees of the late Dr Glenn. Statement sworn by John Ponsonby [2 enslaved people declared as having obtained their freedom under the third section of the Slavery Abolition Act, they having been in England]. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 100 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 118-119