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(Created claim: hasPlaceType (P8): Plantation, Estate, or Ranch (Q347), #quickstatements; batch #991 by User:Alicia Sheill) |
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LBS-PLA-EST-01615
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Mangrove Pond and Giddy Hall
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LBS-PLA-EST-01615
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See also <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/494">Bennett / Giddy Hall records</a>The first signs of white planter settlement appear to have been in the 1630s when Peter Edney owned somewhere between 240 and 320 acres. By 1654 Edward Harris of Barbados sold 150 acres – half of Mangrove Pond – to Sgt Maj. Timothy Thornhill. In turn, in 1674 he sold the plantation (of 164 acres) to his son
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-in law John Sampson for £4,000 (sterling). By 1680 Sampson owned 327 acres comprising both Mangrove Pond and Bennetts (q.v.) plantations. By 1743 the two plantations were in the hands of Harry Slingsby. Under a marriage settlement of Harry Slingsby to Ann Hothersall, daughter of Burch Hothersall, Slingsby's two adjoining plantations in St. Thomas were (1) Mangrove Pond and (2) Giddy Hall (or Benn
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etts). The combined acreage was 400 acres and there were 137 enslaved people on the estates.
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