Antigua 131 (Gilbert's and Mercer's Creek)

Parliamentary Papers p. 309.

T71/877: claim from Nathaniel Gilbert, owner-in-fee. Counterclaims from Earle & Turner, of Liverpool; Rev. Thomas Scott, of Wappenham (Northants), rectory clerk and sole representative of Elizabeth Gilbert, for a legacy of £1800 under the will of Nathaniel Gilbert.

Henry Nelson Coleridge, Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825 (New York, 1826) p.269, states: 'There are seven parish churches in the island, one public chapel, and another private one neatly fitted up by Mr Gilbert for the use of his own slaves.'

T71/250: Rev. Nathaniel Gilbert registered enslaved persons himself in 1832.

Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837 (London, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1838) p.31-2: the authors visited what is almost certainly Nathaniel Gilbert's estate - 'a clergyman of the established church, and has built a little chapel of ease over his boiling house'; he formerly had 200 enslaved persons, now (in 1837) has 100; 'There were no such outbreaks now, of the malignant passions as were frequent formerly. Things were managed with much less discomfort to the proprietor on this account.'