Owner's History | Tastings and Tours of a 1658 Rum Distillery & Sugar Plantation

Header ImageBodySt. Nicholas Abbey’s 350-year history is filled with colourful tales of murder, love and intrigue; its owners have played pivotal roles in both Barbadian and American history.BERRINGER & YEAMANIn the mid-seventeenth century, planters Col. Benjamin Berringer and Sir John Yeaman, partners in real estate speculation, owned two adjacent properties in Barbados; the Berringer Plantation to the north, and Yeaman's plantation, known as Greenland, to the south.Encompassing over 365 acres, the collective property was quite large and the two men often disputed where the property lines fell. Their dispute was magnified by Yeaman’s affection for Berringer’s wife, Margaret.Berringer, hailing from an influential aristocratic family in England, came to Barbados in 1624. Finding success as a planter, he became a member of the Barbados Council, making him an influential man in the island’s early society. He built the plantation’s Jacobean great house in 1658 as a family home for his wife...