St Nicholas (Q492328)
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LBS-PLA-EST-01075
- LBS-PLA-EST-01075
- LBS-PLA-EST-e558
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St Nicholas
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St Nicholas
There is a brief history of the estate and its ownership at the <a href="http://www.stnicholasabbey.com/Learn/Owners-History/" target="_blank">St Nicholas Abbey website</a>; see also the archaeological work reported at the <a href="https://www.daacs.org/sites/st-nicholas-abbey-workers-village/#background" target="_blank">Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery</a> Originally establis
hed c. 1641 and developed by Col. Benjamin Berringer and John Yeamans, though theirs was a complicated history which included Yeamans murdering Benjamin Berringer and marrying his widow, Margaret. By 1716 ownership had passed, through the marriage of George Nicholas to Susannah, née Berringer, to the Nicholas family. (Henceforth, the plantation known as Nicholas.) In 1727 the estate was then sold
to the Dottin family. Joseph Dottin, owner of several plantations in Barbados, then gifted Nicholas to his daughter Christian on her marriage to John Gay Alleyne in 1746.The estate, and especially the period of John Gay Alleyne's 'improvement of it', is the subject of recent work by Bergman and Smith.
13°16'42.748"N, 59°35'21.721"W
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