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Samuel Sturge

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

  1. Samuel Sturge was one of the jurors who found Edward Huggins Sr. not guilty of assaulting a number of enslaved people. The trial was held at the Court of King’s Bench and Common Pleas on 1 May 1810 in the public Court Hall in Charlestown, Nevis.

Sources

  1. ‘Correspondence relating to Punishments inflicted on certain Negro Slaves, in the Island of Nevis; and to Prosecutions in consequence’, Papers Relating to the West Indies, Miscellaneous Accounts and Papers, Session 1 November to 24 July 1810 to 1811, Vol. XI, pg. 26

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Lessee
Powels [ Nevis ]
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Attorney
Tower Hill Estate [ Nevis ]