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Shatterden inherited the estates of his mother's brother Colonel Henry Drax at Ellerton and in Barbados. By 1680, this Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantation in Barbados, then in parish of St. John. A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired 'proper persons' to act in, and do all
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British Caribbean, and was usually a clause that needed to be fulfilled in order to inherit their slave plantations in the West Indies.
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