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According to Hughes-Queree, the plantation was established by Sir Robert Hackett between 1674 and 1679. Under his will of 1679, his wife, Dame Frances Hackett was to have 'sole possession & management' for life of the plantation of 400 acres. She re-married in 1679 to Thomas Walrond, who became the owner of the 340 acres. By 1715 the plantation was reduced to 246 acres. Walrond died in 1694. His h
eirs included Frances and Elizabeth. Frances married William Adams. Their grandson, Thomas Maxwell Adams, inherited the plantation from his great aunt, Elizabeth Maxwell neé Walrond in 1750. According to the Adams Castle Development Inc. website (2015), "The first recorded history of Adams Castle Estate was in 1674 as seen on Forde's map of Barbados, only 47 years after the first English settlemen
t on the island. It was then called Hackett's Plantation and owned by Sir Robert Hackett, who left the 400 acre plantation to his wife Dame Frances Hackett in 1679 with instructions that it would go to his son William Hackett on her death. Unfortunately for William, Frances remarried in that same year to Thomas Walrond and the plantation passed to her husband and was renamed Walrond's Plantation.
Frances and Thomas had two daughters, Frances and Elizabeth. The elder, Frances, married William Adams and inherited the property in 1694 upon the death of Frances Walrond formerly Hackett. Frances and William Adams had a son, Thomas Adams who later married Margaret Maxwell. They in turn had a son named Thomas Maxwell Adams. On the death of her first husband Frances Adams remarried to the Honourab
le George Graeme, owner of Graeme Hall, and the estate became his. The younger sister, Elizabeth Walrond, married James Elliot and in 1715 he began a seven year process which resulted in his ownership of the estate. On his death James Elliott bequeathed the property to his wife Elizabeth who, although remarrying to Thomas Maxwell, had no children to whom to pass the estate. Hence, on her death in
1750, Elizabeth bequeathed Walrond's Plantation to her great-nephew Thomas Maxwell Adams and at that time its name changed to Adams Castle. The Estate remained in the Adams family until the 1850s after which it changed hands many times among some of the leading families in Barbados including the Gills, Ashbys, Inces, Wards and Deanes."
13°5'11.544"N, 59°34'15.834"W
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