Locust Hall (Q492402)
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LBS-PLA-EST-01229
- LBS-PLA-EST-01229
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Locust Hall
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LBS-PLA-EST-01229
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Locust Hall
Capt. James Holdip, agent in Barbados of the London Merchant Syndicate, acquired at least 1,000 acres, possibly as early as c.1635. In 1653 he sold the Locust Hall plantation, of 700 acres in St George, to his brother, Richard, in exchange for an annuity of £20,000. Between 1658 and 1660 Richard Holdip made an agreement with Edward Pye, merchant by which Pye appears to have leased the plantation f
or £2,400 [per annum?] and created sugar works and brought in enslaved people. Under a Chancery case in 1662 Pye acquired ownership. Its extent was 413 acres and there were 127 enslaved on it. Between 1723 and 1744 the owner seems to have been Gelasius MacMahon. In 1744 he bequeathed it to his wife, Frances McMahon, with a dowry to her. In turn she bequeathed it in 1766 to her daughter Mary McMaho
n and her first husband and then second, Henry Thornhill. Also in 1744, Frances McMahon and Elizabeth Brice, a widow of St George, took out a mortgage with John Sober of St Peter for £6,000. At this point there were 113 enslaved on 370 acres.