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1.1.2.2 Edward Huggins, Sr. (1755 - 1829)

A Nevis planter and builder, Edward Huggins' initials can be found on the keystones of buildings at Golden Rock (1815) and Coconut Walk Estates. He was also the owner of Mountravers Estate which he purchased in 1808 from the Pinneys. Histories of Nevis and the British West Indies remember him for having been brought before the Nevis House of Assembly in January of 1810 on the charge of having inflicted excessive cruelty upon thirty-two of his slaves when he had them publically flogged in the market place of Charlestown on January 23rd, 1810. Although a friendly jury found him not guilty, five magistrates were later removed from office for having witnessed the floggings without interfering though they knew them to be a violation of the Melioration Act of 1798 (Burns 1954:602-603). According to a ledger in St. George, Gingerland he died at the age of 74 on the 3rd of June, 1829 "in consequence of a fall from his carriage" (Oliver 1927:84).

1.1.2.2.1 Edward Huggins, Jr. (1780-1840) and 1.1.2.2.4 John Huggins (1788-1822)

According to Joyce Gordon's "Nevis: Queen of the Caribees" (1990:16), Edward Huggins, Jr., the husband of Jane Juxon, was killed in a duel in 1822 with Walter Maynard. The marker of he and his wife in St. George, Gingerland clearly states that he lived to the age of 60 years. Rather it was Edward's brother John that was killed in the duel. According to the marker he shares with his father Edward and grandmother Elizabeth in the gallery of St. George, Gingerland, John left "a numerous family to deplore his loss" (Oliver 1927:83). John's widow Elizabeth Mary Moreton Huggins later remarried a Herbert acccording to Edward Huggins Sr.'s will.

1.1.2.2.1.1 George Juxon Huggins (1821 - ?)

According to Joyce Gordon's "Nevis: Queen of the Caribees" (1990:16-17) George Juxon Huggins was betrothed in 1841 to Caroline Jane Beard, daughter of Anthony Beard of St. Kitts. It is not certain whether or not the wedding occured but a 1861 record does refer to a "widow Huggins' of Eden Brown Estate.

John Huggins (1766 - 1824)

John Huggins will be forever remembered as the builder of Nevis' Bath Hotel. His birthdate indicates that he may have been Edward Huggins' brother but at present I do not have any support for this. John Huggins' grave ledger is in the floor of the nave of St. Paul's church, Charlestown. It reads: "Here lies the body of John Huggins, Esqr who died the 6th day of December 1824 aged 58 years. He began a career of usefulness as a merchant in this town. In private life he was a firm friend an affectionate husband, and a sincere Christian. In public life, he gave universal satisfaction as clerk of the Assembly and Deputy Treasurer of this island. Not many years before his death he became proprietor of the neighbouring hot springs over which out of good will towards his fellow creatures and not for any advantage of his own he erected convenient baths and at a short distance a large and expensive stone edifice for the accomodation of invalids. This tomb put up by his widow" (Oliver 1927:70).

There were apparently several John Huggins on Nevis at this time. Besides John Huggins of the Bath Hotel there was Edward Huggins' son John (see above) and a John Huggins who operated a blacksmith shop in Charlestown together with his brother (?) Frederick Huggins. John and Frederick appear together frequently in the Nevis land records of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Gordon, Joyce
1990 Nevis: Queen of the Caribees. Second Edition. London: MacMillan.

Hubbard, Vincent
1993 Swords, Ships, and Sugar: A History of Nevis to 1900. Third Edition. Placentia, California: Premiere Editions.

Oliver, Vere Langford
1927 Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies. Dorchester: Friary Press.

Pemberton, Robert Charles Boileau
n.d. Pembertons of Nevis and St. Christopher. In the Latter Day Saints History Center.

Additional information on these pages was garnered from Edward Huggins' will and handwritten Huggins family trees which are on file at the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society and which were generously provided to me by David Small and Karin Ambrosh.