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Morgan Lewis

Barbados | St Andrew

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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
- 1760 [LA] → Owner
Sir William Gibbons 1st Bart.
1760 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
Sir John Gibbons 2nd Bart.
1777 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
Rev. Scawen Kenrick Gibbons I
1801 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Scawen Kenrick Gibbons II

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4601 (Morgan Lewis)
£3,577 1S 0D

Notes

The first reference to the Morgan Lewis estate (named after the owner, Morgan Lewis) appears to be in 1674. By 1721 it was owned by John Hannis. By 1736 it was in the possession of the Gibbons family. In 1760 Sir William Gibbons bequeathed the plantation to his son John Gibbons. In turn, in 1777, John Gibbons (by then, Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Bart) bequeathed the plantation to his son Scawan Kenrick Gibbons. For 1787 and subsequently see Evolutions.

Sources

Fur further details of the period 1674-1770 see Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (8)

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1787
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Size] 378  
 

1787: Referred to in the marriage settlement of Scawan Kenrick Gibbons and Christian Skeete, daughter of Elizabeth Skeete, widow. The marriage had taken place in 1783.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1804
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given.]  
 

In a Levy Book list for an unidentified parish [probably St Andrew], Barbados, 1804, Scawen Kenrick Gibbons [II] was listed as owning 152 enslaved. He also owned 1 windmill. It is possible that this referred to the Morgan Lewis estate.

 
Barbados Department of Archives, RB9/3/7. Levy Book for unidentified parish, [probably St Andrew] 1804.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot) 76(F) 68(M)  
 

Return of Scawen Kenrick Gibbons, his own property.

 
T71/522 300-303
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Scawen K. Gibbons, his own property. Previously 135 enslaved.

 
T71/530 403
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
 

Return of Scawen K. Gibbons, his own property. Previously 131 enslaved.

 
T71/537 184
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Scawen K. Gibbons, his own property.

 
T71/543 300-301
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
 

Return of Scawen K. Gibbons, his own property.

 
T71/550 323-4
1913
[Name] Morgan Lewis  
[Size] 354  
 

Listed in St Andrew, property of Pile.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.