UCL

Fitch's Creek or [Martin] Byam's

Antigua

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
1755 [SY] - 1805 [EY] → Owner
Martin Byam
1805 [SY] - 1830 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
William Byam senior
1765 [SY] - 1774 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
John Banister of Cavendish Square

Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I p. 106 shows an indenture of 1790 recapitulating a series of arrangements commencing in 1765 between Martin Byam and his mother Anne on the one hand and John Banister and James Hammond mortgaging an [unnamed] estate for £4600; it was then conveyed in 1768 to Edward Warner and Godschall Johnson of London, and in 1782 to Alexander Willock and in 1790 to James, John and Joseph Kirkpatrick and William Parsons. The estate was 517 acres and had 276 enslaved people attached. It was described as 'that plantation of Martin Byam in the division of New North Sound and parish of St George.' LBS has tentatively inferred it to have been this estate, Fitch's Creek which appears also to have been known as [Martin] Byam's.

1765 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
James Hammond of St Mary Axe

Oliver History of Antigua Vol. I p. 106 shows an indenture of 1790 recapitulating a series of arrangements commencing in 1765 between Martin Byam and his mother Anne on the one hand and John Banister and James Hammond mortgaging an [unnamed] estate for £4600; it was then conveyed in 1768 to Edward Warner and Godschall Johnson of London, and in 1782 to Alexander Willock and in 1790 to James, John and Joseph Kirkpatrick and William Parsons. The estate was 517 acres and had 276 enslaved people attached. It was described as 'that plantation of Martin Byam in the division of New North Sound and parish of St George.' LBS has tentatively inferred it to have been this estate, Fitch's Creek which appears also to have been known as [Martin] Byam's.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Trustee
Rev. Richard Burgh Byam

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 354 (Fitch's Creek)
£4,128 14S 6D

Notes

This estate is the one shown as Fitch's Creek in the compensation but as 'Byam's' for 1817 and 1824, and as 'Martin Byam's' elsewhere.

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Byam's  
 

Rd Burgh Byam trustee by consent of mortgagor William Byam Esq. and mortgagees Messrs Rodie & Shands. 'Trust estate of William Byam (called Byam's).'

 
T71/245 641-646
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Wm. Byam attorney to Wm Byam senior Esq. Inferred to be Fitch's Creek.

 
T71/246 104-110
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Byam's  
 

William Lee attorney to William Byam senior. The sworn statement shows the enslaved people as 'belonging to the trust estate of William Byam called Byam's.'

 
T71/248 428-433
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Martin Byam atty for William Byam esq. sen. prop. ('late of this island now in Britain', p. 64). Inferred to be Fitch's Creek.

 
T71/249 59-64
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] 'Martin Byam's'  
 

George Savage Martin for Charles and William Shand proprietors. '261 by transfer from Martin Byam last returned as the property of William Byam sen.' The affidavit says 'belonging to Messrs Charles and William Shand on their Estate called "Martin Byam's"'.

 
T71/250 601-607