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St. Claire
Village
St. Claire in 2023
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
Island	Antigua
Civil parish	Saint John Parish
Major Division	Potters
Government
• Type	Village Council (possibly dissolved)
Population
• Total	898
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)

St. Claire is a village in Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda. It is located in the Major Division of Potters.

History

St. Clare Estate

When Dr. Raeburn and his wife built the new stairs to the entrance in the 1930s, it appears that they filled the new stairs with many of the old burial stones that were on the property at the time. The doctor's daughter, Rita Raeburn, said that a copse of enormous old tamarind trees served as a marker for a slave burial place. When she last checked, one marker was still there. The property provides a view of the Allen's (#48), Gillead/Providence/Mills (#189), Bendal's Estate (#37), and McNish Mountain.

This plantation, which used to be known as the Body, was rented out for £900 a year and occasionally "underlet" for £120.

The British Parliament gave the St. Clare estate a legacy award of £10,041 for freeing 62 slaves after slavery was abolished in 1833. Rowland Edward Williams received the prize.

In the 1940s, Dr. Robert Raeburn built a dairy farm with Robert Hall at Smith's (#161) while serving as the island's top government vet. They had stunning, sizable gardens with a wide variety of trees and plants, including one enormous, old oak tree that is still there near to the west of the original house. The grounds are still being roamed by peacocks.

A plaque that reads, "St. Clare originally known as The Body Plantation of Colonel Roland Williams and his heirs from 1680-1842," is located above one of the outbuildings. huge bells similar to these were used to call the laborers when the area was being surveyed by Edward St. Clare in 1772. Mears & Staenbank Founders, London, was commissioned by the estate to manufacture an 18-inch bell in 1860. It still lays in the yard, despite having recently cracked. The majority of plantations featured sizable bells like this one that were used to call in the estate employees.

The Alexander Willock, Esq.-drawn map of the estate was also in the possession of the Raeburn family. It displays the entire layout, including the position of the sugar mill and other structures as well as the number of fields, acres, and roads. John Killean was the surveyor.

Demographics

St. Claire has two enumeration districts.

• 33501  St. Claire_1
• 33502  St. Claire_2

References

1. "The village councils act" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-28.
2. "The political Neanderthal". 12 March 2020.
3. "St. Clare – Antigua Sugar Mills". Retrieved 2023-02-17.
4. "Ethnic" (PDF). 2022. Archived from the original on Mar 20, 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
5. "Religion" (PDF). 2022. Archived from the original on Mar 20, 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
6. "Country of birth" (PDF). 2022. Archived from the original on Mar 20, 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
7. "Lived Overseas" (PDF). 2022. Archived from the original on Mar 20, 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
8. "The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL" (PDF).
9. "Country of Citizenship" (PDF). redatam.org. 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 20, 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2023.

v t e Parish of Saint John
Populated places	Adelin Belmont Bendals Blue Waters Branns Hamlet Buckleys Cedar Grove Cedar Valley Clare Hall Clarkes Hill Crosbies Emanuel Five Islands Golden Grove Greenbay Herberts Nut Grove Ottos Potters Radio Range Skyline St. Claire St. John's St. Johnston Tomlinson Upper Gamble's Villa Yeptons
Geographical features	Boon Point Cooks Creek Dickenson Bay Five Island Harbour McKinnon's Pond Redonda
History and culture	Fort Barrington Fort James Government House Kingdom of Antigua
Landmarks and tourism	Antigua Carnival Blue Waters Hotel

v t e Populated places of Antigua and Barbuda
Largest city: St. John's
Saint George	Barnes Hill Carlisle Coolidge Crosbies Fitches Creek Gunthorpes New Winthorpes Osbourn Paynters Piggotts Sea View Farm Sugar Factory Upper Lightfoot
Saint John	Adelin Belmont Bendals Blue Waters Branns Hamlet Buckleys Cedar Grove Cedar Valley Clare Hall Clarkes Hill Crosbies Emanuel Five Islands Golden Grove Greenbay Herberts Nut Grove Ottos Potters Radio Range Skyline St. Claire St. John's St. Johnston Tomlinson Upper Gamble's Villa Yeptons
Saint Mary	Bishops Blubber Valley Bolans Cades Bay Cedar Hall Claremont Crabs Hill Ebenezer Glebe Jennings John Hughes Johnsons Point New Division Old Road Orange Valley Mill Sawcolts Seaforths Urlings Yorks
Saint Paul	Bethesda Burkes Christian Hill Delaps Dieppe Bay English Harbour Falmouth Liberta Mathews Pattersons Swetes Table Hill Gardens
Saint Peter	Diamonds Freemans Mercers Creek Pares Parham Vernons
Saint Philip	Collins Ffryes Freetown Glanvilles Montpelier Newfield Seatons St. Phillip's Willikies
Barbuda	Codrington Barbuda-North Barbuda-South Barbuda-East
Redonda	n/a

17°05′09″N 61°48′53″W / 17.08574°N 61.814682°W / 17.08574; -61.814682

• Populated places in Antigua and Barbuda
• Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda