productive southeast. These had been reinforced by Cedar Hill and Sanderson's by 1891, according to the court once more, making a total of nine properties. John was a prominent figure in the plantocracy and spent twenty years on the Legislative Council in addition to serving on a number of governmental boards. In the Eastern Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda, the Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center (GARDC) is situated on the storied Gilbert's Estate. The Trust of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean & The Americas owns and oversees the property (MCCA). The MCCA, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)/Canada Training Awards Programme (CTAP), and the Government of Antigua-Barbuda worked together to create the GARDC Center as a two-year trial project in 1989. Cocoa Nutt Hall (Crump’s) On February 21, 1711, Nathaniel Crump reported that a group of French privateers had landed at his property on October last and taken fifteen slaves. He makes a payment request to the Assembly. He receives 661 pounds from the government on May 22 as payment for them. The scheme to assassinate Nathaniel Crump and all the other white people on the island was hatched in 1729 by a gang of slaves under his ownership at Coconut Hall Plantation in St. Peter. The five ringleaders were put to death, and some of their associates were moved to nearby islands. Attorney Nathaniel Crump served as Speaker of Antigua's Council on July 21, 1716, President of Council in 1735, and a sworn Militia member. When the mate of the sloop "Catherine," which later belonged to Boston merchant Peter Papillon, murdered his skipper, the deed was discovered at St. John's where he went in for provisions, prompting George Crump and Samuel Redhead, who have a large sloop of 10 guns now fitting for the coast of Guinea, to offer to take back six free negroes. Andrew Newton of London has purchased "Crump's Mountain Plantation, Crump's Windward Plantation, and Crump's Steel Plantation, all in Antigua, from George and Nathaniel Crump of Middlesex. releasing the plantations in exchange for a 300-pound payment over Mr. Newton's lifetime. Nathaniel Crump inherited the 240-acre estate of Mercer's Creek, also known as Cocoa Nut Hall, from his uncle Dr. George Crump. Because these two estates are distinct from one another and are nearby Hawes, it is possible that they were all referred to as Mercer's Creek. Andrew Newton of London has purchased