Stoney Grove Estate is a former plantation on the Caribbean island of

Nevis Nevis is a small island in the Caribbean Sea that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies. Nevis and the neighbouring island of Saint Kitts constitute one country: the Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation ...

. The

Stoney Grove Strikers Stoney Grove Strikers, known as BAS Stoney Grove Strikers for sponsorship reasons, is a Nevisian association football club based in Charlestown. The team is the second most successful team in the Nevis Premier Division winning the title twice. ...

gained their name from here. The estate is in the parish of Saint John Figtree. It is about is 177 meters above sea level. It is 4.49 acres in size. The estate contains ruins of former buildings, including the

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, whose floor area was 1,900 square feet. The estate was first owned by James Tobin senior, and then his son,

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(1736/7–1817), from whom it passed to his friend and business associate John Pinney. While James Tobin was an active anti-abolitionist, his son James Webbe Tobin opposed slavery and moved to Nevis in 1809. He built the

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mansion, whose ruins are visible today. At the death of James Tobin in 1817, there were 213 enslaved people on the estate. At

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the estate housed 209

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, for which Charles Pinney received £3,572 10s 11d

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