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[Number of enslaved people] 27(Tot) 15(F) 12(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  

Return of Richard Keene Austin, his own property.

T71/521 283

[Number of enslaved people] 4(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Return of Richard Keene Austin, his own property. Note that the total given is 4 enslaved where the previous total (for 1820) had been 21. There is no mention here of enslaved being held by Austin for his children as in 1826. However, there are separate returns by Austin (p. 5) for Sarah B. Austin 'who is absent from the island' (4 enslaved) and for Lucy W. Austin (also absent) (6 enslaved). But see entry below for 1823.

T71/530 4-5

[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Return of Richard Keene Austin 'of slaves the undivided property of Caroline Sarah Briggs, Mary Frances H. Austin, Sarah Bathsheba Austin, and Lucy Whystick Austin, the said slaves being in his possession for life'. [They were his children.] No previous return. NB the separate registration by Austin in 1823 (above) and that the 1826 return gives the previous, 1823, total as 21.

T71/530 20

[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  

Return of Richard Keene Austin 'of slaves the undivided property of Caroline Sarah Briggs, Mary Frances H. Austin, Sarah Bathsheba Austin, and Lucy Whystick Austin, the said slaves being in his possession for life'. [They were his children.]

Previously 21 enslaved.

T71/536 197

[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  

Return of Richard Keene Austin 'of slaves the undivided property of his children, in his possession'.

T71/544 194

[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  

Return of Richard K. Austin, his own property. Strictly, it was Austin's children who owned the enslaved: he was in possession of them for the duration of his life. TNA, T71/459, p.195.

T71/549 195