Spooners Cayon

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
1790 [SY] - 1819 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
- 1790 [EY] → Owner
1819 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Lessee
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,243 17S 2D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of Charles Spooner, owner; returned by Samuel R Thomas, manager.

 
T 71/253 416-421
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Spooner's, Cayon  
 

Return of Peter T Shaw, owner; returned by Peter Spooner Shaw, manager.

 
T 71/255 105-107
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon Spooner  
 

Return of Peter T Shaw, owner; returned by Theodore Shaw, manager.

 
T 71/257 367 - 368
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 232  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Mary Cayon as an estate of 232 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 144 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Charles Spooner deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Spooners Cayon  
 

Return of Theodore Shaw, manager of the estate of Charles Spooner Esq, deceased owner. St. Mary, Cayon

 
T 71/258 117-118
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, lessees of the estate of the late Charles Spooner, owner; returned by Adam Stevens, attorney to Mannings and Anderdon; 129 enslaved people were received from Theodore Shaw and John Swindell Esquires, attorneys for the estate of C Spooner Cayon April 14 1828; it is noted that by the Triennial Return D there 131 enslaved people on the estate.

 
T 71/259 95-98
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] Cayon  
 

Return of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, lessees of the estate of the late Charles Spooner, owner. "The present return only acknowledges 129 having been received in April 1828 - And Mr Shaw having refused to make the Return from Jan to April has omitted to mention the death of two slaves who are specified by the Moravian Missionary and which makes the no. correct." [this is written in red ]

 
T 71/259 95-98
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Spooner Cayon Estate  
 

Return of Messrs Mannings and Anderdon, joint owners; returned by Adam Stevens, attorney.

 
T 71/260 101 - 102