UCL

Claybury Estate

Barbados | St John

Estate Details

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
1778 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Owner
Cheesman Moe
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Cheesman Moe [II]
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
George Moe
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Thomas Sharp

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 5307 (Claybury Estate)
£4,915 0S 10D

Estate Information (6)

What is this?

1778
[Size] 205  
 

In 1763, the Hon. Edward Pare of St. John, owner of Claybury, gave mortgage to the Hon. Samuel Rous of St. John for £8,700 secured on the plantation. The plantation straddled St. John, St. George and St. Joseph. By 1778 the capital and interest on this mortgage amounted to £9,403. Samuel Rous bought the plantation from Edward Pare for that sum. Rous immediately sold it to his son-in-law, the Hon. Cheeseman Moe for £11,000, with Moe giving the mortgage.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot) 92(F) 84(M)  
[Name] Clay Bury  
 

Return of George Moe, Attorney, the property of Cheeseman Moe.

 
T71/521 635-39
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Thomas Sharpe, his own property. Previously 8 enslaved. Changes:
Gift of Margaret Linton: 1; purchased from Cheesman Moe: 139; purchased from Mary A. Sharp: 2; purchased of William Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of William Murrell: 52; bought of John Tapin: 1; bought of Jonas Wilkinson: 1; births: 13; sold to J. M. Brathwaite: 1; sold to J. Wilkinson: 1; deaths: 9.

 
T71/537 49-55
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharpe, his own property.

 
T71/543 188
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharpe, his own property.

 
T71/550 209-10
1913
[Name] Claybury  
[Size] 303  
 

Listed in St John, property of Pile et al.

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