Baxters (Q497390)
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LBS-PLA-EST-11127
- LBS-PLA-EST-11127
- LBS-PLA-EST-e9632
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Baxters
Known as Baxter's after the owner, Stephen Baxter who had owned the plantation in 1647, having bought half of it from Hugh Harper with whom he had owned the plantation since, apparently, 1630. Between 1663 and 1685 the land which was to become Baxter's plantation was owned by various people. In 1685 Michael Child of St. Lucy sold to William Merricke for £10,000 sterling a plantation in St. Andrew
& St. Joseph called Baxter's Valley: 420 acres, 2 windmills and 140 enslaved people.In 1691 William Forster of St. Peter, attorney for Sir William Merriche [or Merricke] of Bristol, England, sold to William Dottin of St. Andrews for £8,000 sterling 420 acres in St. Andrew & St. Joseph. The acreage was made up of 33 acres at Chalky Mount & other lesser pieces of land & Baxter's plantation of 304 ac
res. By his will of 1704 William Dottin bequeathed Baxter's to his son John Dottin. The Dottin family then owned Baxter's until 1793. There were various debts on the estate between in the 1720s but by 1783-84 the estate had passed to Dottin Maycock, Solicitor General, who purchased Baxter's from his aunt, Elizabeth Dottin, on the death of his uncle John Dottin (President of the Barbados Council).
The estate had been mortgaged to William Baker, Alderman of London in 1759. The mortgage was secured on 3 plantations: Mount Edge (St Thomas: 73 enslaved; 166 acres); The Spring (St Thomas: 35 enslaved; 104 acres); Baxter's (St Andrew: 113 enslaved; 366 acres). John Dottin later sold Mount Edge and applied the purchase price to reducing the mortgage. When Dottin Maycock bought Baxters, the mortgag
e of £4,000 was assumed by Thomas & John Daniel who paid that sum to the executors of Sir William Baker, deceased.
13°13'22.764"N, 59°34'6.413"W
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