Seawells (Q492368)
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LBS-PLA-EST-01155
- LBS-PLA-EST-01155
- LBS-PLA-EST-e599
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Seawells
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LBS-PLA-EST-01155
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Statements
Seawells
In c. 1663 the land was in the possession of Samuel Newton but by 1674 was owned by the Hon. Richard Seawell (Attorney General, 1684). By 1680 he owned 550 acres in Christ Church. By 1712, Elizabeth Seawell, widow, had become the owner of at least a substantial part of this. In 1714 part of the Seawell plantation was sold to Edward Charnock who established Charnock's plantation (q.v.). In c. 1745
ownership of the Seawell and Newton plantations moved to the Newton family.This estate is among the four estates (Mount Vernon in the US; Newton and Seawells in Barbados; and Prospect in Portland Jamaica,) whose labour organisation and working methods are analysed in Justin Roberts, <em>Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807</em> (Cambridge: CUP, 2013).