114 Titnehin. 



get better wages ; that one of them (whose name his lordship 

 recognized) was even engaged in painting the c ithed al in Barbadoes ; 

 that it was true they would not engage in field labour because they 

 had never been accustomed to it, but were, in general, excellent 

 mechanics ; that as to their houses many of them had been in a state 

 of delapidation because Government, undecided for some years what 

 to do, would not go to the expense of repairing them ; but that since 

 emancipation most were improving their houses, and some were 

 building excellent ones." 



Many of the people in the Winkel Village as we have seen — went 

 away. Some left because there were better prospects elsewhere. Others 

 wanted to " stretch their legs." They had been tied by the leg all their 

 lives and had now been untied. They wanted to " feel free." Many of 

 the people, however, remained in the old locality. They were too old to 

 travel. 



Half a century passes : many of the old " Crown Slaves " die out ; 

 their children grew up, and they had children: and the Winkel Village 

 yet remains a separate entity, the old heads, on idle nights, passing on 

 their tales of the past when King William took an interest in his village 

 and in his own, own people, — " King William's People." 



The old promise (it will be remembered) when the Winkels were 

 emancipated, was that they should be secured in the possession of their 

 houses, so long as they kept them in repair. On September 30, 1890, the 

 Combined Court — on a Petition on behalf of the Winkel Villagers, by 

 Mr. William Pitt ("Carpenter-boss" in New Amsterdam) who was a 

 Winkel descendant, and of Mr. C. B. Carto (Schoolmaster) who had 

 married a Winkel descendant — authorised that " portions of that piece of 

 Crown land known as Winkel Village " should be made to certain persons 

 named, " the said persons being either former slaves, or descendants of 

 former slaves, claiming certain interests in the said village." The " former 

 slaves " then alive were as follows : 



Male. Female. 



Lyander Bernard. Priscilla Rose. 



Richard Downer. Sally Headicker. 



William Thome. Harriette January. 



Rosaline Fredericks. 

 Johanna Prince. 

 Mrs. Myres. 

 Susan Rose. 

 Charlotte Fredericks. 

 Anu F. Gournal. 

 Elizabeth Ferdinand. 

 Grace De Wall. 

 Lydia Houston 

 Rebecca Woltf. 

 Madeline Denba. 

 Elizabeth Dykeman 

 Louisa Marimees 



