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Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."
By 1913 the owner was Lears Estate Company Lodge St. Michael 170 By 1913 the owner was McConney Lower Birney St. Michael 218 By 1913 the owner was Mahon Lower Estate St. Michael 474 By 1913 the owner was Frere et al. Mount Clapham St. Michael 343 By 1913 the owner was Evelyn Neils St. Michael 213 By 1913 the owner was Gibbs Pine St. Michael 452
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
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Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island 's two remaining Jacobean houses .
Ferdinand Paleologus (Italian: Ferdinando Paleologo; June 1619 – 2 October 1670) was a 17th-century English-Greek freeholder, sugar or cotton planter and churchwarden and possibly one of the last living members of the Palaiologos dynasty, which had ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1259 to its fall in 1453.
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Born about 1640 on Barbados, Codrington was the son of another Christopher Codrington and probably the grandson of Robert Codrington, a landed gentleman with an estate at Dodington, Gloucestershire. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His father was a royalist who had arrived in Barbados around 1640, married a sister of James Drax , a leading plantation owner, and ...