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Bowmanstown

Barbados | St John

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Associated People (5)

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
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Joseph Miller
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Trustee
Thomas Miller junior
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
George Barclay
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Bishop Harper
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Hall Lord

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4236A & B (Bowmanstown)
£3,250 16S 1D

Notes

First owned by the Downes family between c.1674 until at least 1738. At some time between 1738 and 1777 it was acquired by the Hon Joseph Miller.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1777
[Size] 169  
 

In 1777 the Hon. Joseph Miller sold the estate in trust to Thomas Miller, jnr. 169 acres.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 54(F) 36(M)  
 

Return of George Barclay, his own property.

 
T71/521 562-64
1820
 

Return of Thomas Bishop Harper, Executor, the property of the Estate of George Barclay, deceased. Zero return: Changes in the numbers of enslaved since 1817: sold to Sam. Lord: 85 (including 3 births since 1817); sold to S. Thorpe: 1; sold to Thos. Cox: 1; Reverted to Mrs Barclay: 3; deaths: 6 (including 3 who were born and died since 1817).

 
T71/525 631-33
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, his own property. Changes in the enslaved numbers since 1820: purchases included 19 from Richard K. Austin; gift to Caroline S. Briggs, Mary F. H. Austin, Sarah B. Austin and Lucy W. Austin: 19. The total increase was 58; the total decrease was 30. Previously 89 enslaved.

 
T71/530 241-44
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, his own property. Previously 117 enslaved. NB that this return was made in St Philip in 1826 rather than in St John as the 1829 one was.

 
T71/536 290-1
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot)  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, his own property.

 
T71/543 168-9
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Samuel H. Lord, his own property.

 
T71/550 189-90
1913
[Name] Bowmanston  
[Size] 245  
 

Listed in St John, property of Birch, Collymore and Douglas.

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