I am doing some research on a Ruby St. Philip family. Thought Id share: Ruby, plantation, residential subdivision, is located to the east of the Congo Road plantation and Lucas St., to the south of the Mapps and River plantations, to the west of Eastbourne and Wheelers, and to the north of Long Bay and Work Hall. Nathaniel Gittens owned this plantation in 1735 when it was a mere 110 acres. However, by the time that the ‘free mulatto’, Jacob Belgrave Jr., sold it in 1823, its size had increased to 356 acres, and it topped four hundred acres between 1826 and 1840, during its ownership by the colourful Samuel Hall Lord, and it maintained that size until the 1940s. The plantation is noteworthy because it was one of the fifteen or sixteen plantations that non-white families owned during slavery. The name can be found in the House of Assembly’s Report on the 1816 slave rebellion. The plantation’s name was ‘Woods’ when Belgrave bought it in 1807, but he renamed it, presumably because he considered it (valued at £29,260) the brightest jewel at that stage in his business crown.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:15:56 +0000
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