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Staple Grove

Barbados | Christ Church

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Associated People (6)

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
- 1784 [EY] → Owner
Hon. Conrade Adams

Possibly the owner until 1784.

1724 [EA] - → Owner
Conrade Adams the elder
1781 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Mayers I
1803 [EA] - 1812 [LA] → Owner
Henry Adams Mayers
1812 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Pollard Mayers
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3277 (Staple Grove)
£5,441 6S 3D

Notes

Between 1642 and 1724, Staple Grove was in the hands of the Peers family. In 1724 John Peers sold Staple Grove to Conrade Adams (and an associated plantation, Rendezvous, to John Shurland). Adams also acquired some land in Bridgetown. Staple Grove was, at this point, 378 acres and there were 71 enslaved people and ‘some white servants’. It is not clear at what point the Adams family ceased to be the owners though possibly in the 1770s.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (11)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 146(Tot) 77(F) 69(M)  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 6 whites, and blacks as: men: 44; women: 52; boys: 25; girls: 25. [It is not clear why only 6 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.] The document gives the name as Stable Grove: this was probably Staple Grove. It appears to have been associated with Conrade Adams.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1781
 

1777-1781: Acquired by Joseph Mayers. Joseph Mayers had married Frances Hearne Pollard in 1774 and they had a son, John Pollard Mayers. In 1781 Joseph re-married – to Mary Elizabeth Adams, daughter and heir of Conrade Adams, who was the son of Conrade Adams who had bought Staple Grove in 1724. By this point the Mayers family owned the Golden Grove, Grove, Rendezvous and Mount Lebanon plantations.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1784
[Name] Staple Grove  
 

Advertisement for the sale of the moveables, copper stills, utensils etc. on Staple Grove, Whetstone and Bannatynes on 16/08/1784 and of the 'the remainder of the negroes and cattle belonging to Hon. Conrade Adams and Conrade Adams the elder deceased' on the following day.

https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/04/75/11/00070/AA00047511_00070.txt [accessed 03/09/2021]. The file is corrupted.

1803
 

1803 Under the Will of Joseph Mayers, Henry Adams Mayers, son of 2nd marriage to Mary Elizabeth Adams, was given the opportunity to buy Staple Grove because he had adjoining property.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1812
 

1812 John Pollard Mayers bought the plantation from his ½ brother, Henry Adams Mayers.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 263(Tot) 143(F) 120(M)  
 

Return of John Pollard Mayers, his own property.

 
T71/521 181-7
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of John Pollard Mayers. Prevously 237 enslaved.

 
T71/529 732
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of John Pollard Mayers.

 
T71/536 118-19
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of John Pollard Mayers.

 
T71/544 137-8
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of John Pollard Mayers.

 
T71/549 126-7
1913
[Name] Staple Grove  
[Size] 345  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Burton.

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