Apes Hill (Q492588)
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Apes Hill
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From the 1670s, the Walter family – initially Richard Walter – acquired land which was to become the Apes Hill plantation. By 1697, a marriage settlement between John Walter, son of Richard Walter, and Lucy Alleyne, the daughter of Abel Alleyne. Richard Walter's plantation called Apes Hill, 300 acres, 203 slavesIn 1726 John Walter of Busbridge Park, Surrey, England, sold to his brother-in-law, the
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Hon. Alexander Walker of St. James, 2 plantations in St. James, St. Thomas & St. Andrew: (1) Apes Hill and (2) Evans (Water Hall). Total area 536 acres, £25,000, 2 mansion houses, 2 sugar mills, 139 enslaved at Apes Hill (95 at Water Hall). The 1729 will of the Hon. Alexander Walker stated that the Evans plantation was 209 acres. Therefore Apes Hill probably 327 acres. Apes Hill was bequeathed to
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his son William Walker. At some point and in an unknown way, Apes Hill beame the property of Abel Walter, from whom it passed to his son John Walter.
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