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Hope

Barbados | Christ Church

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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
1815 [SY] - 1816 [EY] → Owner
John Allen Olton junior
- 1812 [LA] → Owner
James Maxwell merchant of Barbados
1812 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
John Simmons

Possibly the owner between 1812 and 1815: see general estate notes.

1816 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Robert Reece

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3283 (Hope)
£4,072 4S 11D

Notes

Note that this is different from the Hope estate which was the subject of the claim Barbados 3822.

A plantation appears to have been established by 1674. By 1724-26 it was owned by Conrade Adams who owned 117 enslaved. The extent was 204 acres. By 1812 it was associated with James Maxwell (who died in 1812), was then acquired by John Simmons (1812-1815), by John Allen Olton (1815-1816) and then by Robert Reece (1816- ). The Reece family still owned the plantation by 1842-1854. See evolutions for further details.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1815
 

In 1815 John Simmons sold the Hope estate to John Allen Olton for £21,666.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
[Size] 208  
 

John Allen Olton of Christ Church sold to Robert Reece of Christ Church, the Hope plantation, of 208 acres, for £28,625.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot) 70(F) 80(M)  
 

Return of Robert Reece, his own property.

 
T71/521 227-31
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Reece, his own property. NB that the 1826 register gave a previous return (for 1823) of 187 enslaved where as the 1823 Register gave 138 as the total. Both are given for the Hope estate.

 
T71/529 752
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Reece, his own property. NB that the 1826 register gave a previous return (for 1823) of 187 enslaved where as the 1823 Register gave 138 as the total.

 
T71/536 151-2
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Robert Reece, his own property.

 
T71/544 165
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 181(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Reece, his own property.

 
T71/549 161
1913
[Name] Hope  
[Size] 200  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Evelyn Bros.

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