Old Road

Estate Details


Associated People (14)

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
1824 [SY] - 1828 [LA] → Heir
1788 [SY] - 1815 [EY] → Owner
1741 [SY] - 1788 [EY] → Owner
- 1741 [EY] → Owner
Mortgage Holder
- 1757 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

By indentures of 06/06/1757 and 07/06/1757, the mortgage held by John Bannister [sic] late of Antigua then of Chiswick was repaid by Robert Webb, who took on the mortgage.

- 1799 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1757 [EA] - 1765 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
1760 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

By a deed of 10/05/1760, William Young then of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds on Antigua and 333 acres of the Old Road estate to secure £7000 to Richard Maitland, Thomas Boddington and Benjamin Boddington. The mortgage grew and passed through the successive iterations of the Boddington firm until 1799.

1760 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

By a deed of 10/05/1760, William Young then of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds on Antigua and 333 acres of the Old Road estate to secure £7000 to Richard Maitland, Thomas Boddington and Benjamin Boddington. The mortgage grew and passed through the successive iterations of the Boddington firm until 1799.

1760 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

By a deed of 10/05/1760, William Young then of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds on Antigua and 333 acres of the Old Road estate to secure £7000 to Richard Maitland, Thomas Boddington and Benjamin Boddington. The mortgage grew and passed through the successive iterations of the Boddington firm until 1799.

1765 [EA] - 1766 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Nathaniel Webb under indentures of 13 and 14/02/1766 agreed with the Boddington firm of London, which held a later mortgage on the same property, that it would pay off the mortgage of £5000 on the Antigua property of Sir William Young that he [Nathaniel Webb] had inherited from his brother Robert Webb the previous year.

1799 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Assignee

In 1799 Bryan Edwards and his London partners agreed to accept 5 bills of exchange drawn on them by Sir William Young 2nd bart. over the next 5 years to repay the mortgage held by the Boddington firm. Edwards however died in 1802 and his firm was dissolved: the fate of the mortgage has not yet been traced by LBS.

1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£1,691 11S 10D

Estate Information (8)

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1769
[Name] Old Road  
 

Mortgaged in 1769 to London merchants Maitland and Boddington. for £30,000. Commuted to £25,750 in 1778. By 1790s value of annual produce not paying the interest on the mortgage.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017, sourced to National Archives, Treasury Solicitor's papers TS 11/214-7 (notes this is a major collection of papers on Young's affairs assembled for the prosecution of him for the very large debt he owed as chief commissioner for the sale of crown land in the Ceded Islands).
1773
[Name] Old Road  
 

Value appraised at £30,000 in 1773.

 
Email from Peter Marshall, 04/09/2017, sourced to National Archives, Treasury Solicitor's papers TS 11/214-7 (notes this is a major collection of papers on Young's affairs assembled for the prosecution of him for the very large debt he owed as chief commissioner for the sale of crown land in the Ceded Islands).
1799
[Name] Old Road  
 

An indenture of 03/10/1799 in the St Vincent Deed Book for 1800 summarised the trajectory of the lending by the London merchant firm of Boddingtons to Sir William Young 1st bart. and Sir William Young 2nd bart. The deed was between (1) Samuel Boddington and Richard Sharp, the then partners in Boddingtons, (2) Bryan Edwards, Alexander Cuthbert, John Simpson, and William Wilder of Mark Lane (3) Thomas Boddington of St John Hackney (q.v. under Thomas Boddington of Clapton); and Ambrose Weston and Thomas Weston of Fenchurch Street. It showed (1) under a deed of 10/05/1760 William Young of Standlynch mortgaged an estate near Body Ponds and the Old Road estate of 333 acres and the enslaved people attached to them in Antigua to Richard Maitland, Benjamin Boddington [the elder] and Thomas Boddington [of Clapton] to secure £7000; (2) under indentures of 13 and 14/02/1766 Nathaniel Webb of St George Hanover Square, brother and heir of Robert Webb, had agreed for the Boddingtons to take over the mortgage that Robert Webb had under indentures of 06 and 07/06/1757 taken on by paying £5000 to pay off the earlier mortgage of John Banister late of Antigua on Sit William Young's property there; (3) under indentures of 24 and 25/01/1770 Sir William Young of Delaford issued 8 bonds to secure his total debt to Boddingtons, then £61,690, which was also secured on Queensbury, Pembroke and Calliaqua estates on St Vincent as well as the Antigua properties; (4) by 1774, th mortgage debt had been reduced to £38,411 7s 1d, and Body Ponds, Queensbury and Pembroke were released as security, leaving Old Road and Calliaqua still mortgaged; in 1799, Sir William Young 2nd bart. being desirous of clearing the remaining mortgage, he and the Boddingtons agreed with the London firm of Bryan Edwards (Edwards, Cuthbert, Simpson and Wilder) that he would issue 5 bills of exchange drawn upon Edwards' firm in favour of the Boddingtons, who would retain the mortgage until the bills were honoured [However, Edwards died in 1802 and his firm was dissolved: the fate of the mortgage has not yet been traced by LBS].

Deed Book 1800, British Library, EAP688/1/1/11, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-11 pp. 198-222

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
[Name] Old Road  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby as attorney to Sir William Young bart. proprietor. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to the estate Old Road.

 
T71/245 134-135
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot)  
[Name] Old Road  
 

George Ick attorney to Sir William Young bart. prop., belonging to Sir William Young's Old Road plantation

 
T71/246 237-240
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Old Road  
 

John Farr attorney of Sir William Lawrence Young bart. proprietor Old Road plantation. The previous return in 1821 had been by George Ick (104 enslaved people).

 
T71/248 248-250
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr attorney to exors of Sir William Lawrence Young deceased proprietor. The entry reflects the 98 enslaved people registered on Old Road in 1824 and is inferred to be the same estate. [Sir William Lawrence Young 3rd bart. d. c. 1824].

 
T71/249 813-815
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr proprietor. 97 by purchase from exors of Sir William L. Young deceased.

 
T71/250 255-257