Providence (Q499906)
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LBS-PLA-EST-16221
- LBS-PLA-EST-16221
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Providence
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Note that there appears to be no record of the Providence estate after this register entry. It does not for example appear in Barrallier's 1825 map. There is also no reference to Robert Reece's ownership in the Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations in the Barbados Department of Archives. However, note that <em>William</em> Reece (?-1835) owned Pilgrim Place and Gibbons plantations in Christ Church, B
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arbados and gave the land on which Providence Chapel stands. An estate called Providence was owned by William Welch who left it in 1818 with consent to sell it for the benefit of his wife and children: this was probably the same estate, given the movement in the number of enslaved people in the respective entries: it appears that by 1823 Robert Reece sold at least half the enslaved people whom he
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had bought before 1820. See BA 7646.
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