Barbados 4786 (Checker Hall)

Not listed in Parliamentary Papers.

T71/899: claim by Joseph Briggs, owner-in-fee. Counterclaims from the Daniels, and from Francis Onslow Trent, of England, and his wife Judith Trent (late Judith Sober) for a legacy under the will of Hilary Rowe, dated 29/09/1816, for £3502 19 71/2d currency.

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) p. 138: shows Joseph Briggs as the owner of Checker Hall [?] and other estates, and as director of West India Bank in 1839.

T71/565 p. 42: enslaved persons were registered on Checker Hall by Joseph Briggs in 1834.

See also Barbados claim nos. 2034, 4598 and 4925 for connections between the Trent and Sober families.