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Pool Estate

Barbados | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
- 1731 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Maycock

Thomas Maycock left the Pool plantation in St John Barbados to his son [Colonel] Thomas Maycock in his will made in 1731.

1756 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Stevenson
1765 [EA] - 1765 [LA] → Owner
Alexander Stevenson
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Graeme
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Joint owner
John Thomas Lord
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Elizabeth Sarsfield Lord
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Samuel Hall Lord

Lord was the executor of the estate of John T. Lord.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4261 (Pool Estate)
£4,615 19S 9D

Notes

See notes on the Long Bay estate for the complex relations between the Lord family and the Long Bay and Pool estates.

Estate Information (9)

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1756
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Size] 250  
 

In 1756 William Gulstone of St. John, who had owned the Pool since 1738, albeit indebted by mortgages held in London, sold the estate to Thomas Stevenson of St. Michael for £10,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1765
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot)  
[Size] 347  
 

In 1765, Thomas Harvey of Suffolk Street, Middlesex, England, executor of the will of Thomas Stevenson, who died in 1764 of Barbados and trustee of the Pool plantation, sold the Pool to Alexander Stevenson of St. Michael for £21,531.

1813
[Size] 366  
 

The Hon. Thomas Graham of Oldbury Court, Gloucester, England sold the Pool to John Thomas Lord and Samuel Hall Lord, though Graham appears to have continued to hold a mortgage given to the Lords.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot) 101(F) 93(M)  
 

Return of John Thomas Lord, the joint property of himself and Elizabeth Sarsfield Lord.

 
T71/521 629-34
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, Executor to John T. Lord. The enslaved the property of the estate of John T. Lord and Elizabeth S. Lord, who is absent from the island. Previously 205 enslaved.

 
T71/530 245-47
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Elizabeth S. Lord, the joint property of the Estate of John T. Lord, deceased, and herself. Previously 218 enslaved.

 
T71/536 291-3
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot)  
[Name] Pool  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, the joint property of Elizabeth S. Lord and the Estate of John T. Lord. Samuel Lord was Attorney to Elizabeth and Executor of John. Previously 204 enslaved.

 
T71/543 167-8
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, the joint property of Elizabeth S. Lord and the Estate of John T. Lord. Samuel Lord was Attorney to Elizabeth and Executor of John.
Elizabeth, John and Samuel Lord were siblings.

 
T71/550 191-2
1913
[Name] Pool and Risque  
[Size] 423  
 

Listed in St John, property of Trollope.

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