Piggotts

Piggotts
Piggotts
Coordinates	17 ° 7 ′  N , 61 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 7 ′  N , 61 ° 48 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Antigua and Barbuda
island	Antigua
Parish	St. George
Enumeration District	40600  Piggotts-School , 40700  Pigotts Hill , 40800  Piggotts-St.Mary’s , 40900  Piggotts-Moravian , 41000  Piggotts-Central
Residents	1478 (2001)
with Osbourne, Paynters, St. Mark’s

Piggotts , also Pigott Village , is a place in Saint Georges Parish on the Caribbean island of Antigua , in the state of Antigua and Barbuda .

Location and landscape

Piggotts is located in the northern part of the island, four kilometers east of downtown Saint John's , directly southwest of the airport . It is at the southern end of the Northern Hills against the Central Plain . The Old Parham Road leads through the village to Parham , in the south of the Sir Sidney Walling Highway (Factory Road) towards Pares .

The place has around 1,500 inhabitants, making it one of the ten largest on the island. It includes around 500 households.

Piggotts is divided into Piggotts-Central and on Old Parham Road (here Piggotts Main Road ), Paynters in the southwest (approx. Piggotts School district ) and St. Mark’s and Osbourne (also Osborne , corresponds to Piggotts-Moravian ) and Pigotts Hill in Northwest. Today Piggotts is largely grown together with its neighboring towns.

Neighboring locations and locations:

Clare Hall ( St. John's )	Carlisle	Airport
Skerretts ( St. John's )		Fitches Creek
Potters Tomlinsons (both St. John's )	Gunthorbes	Weirs

History, infrastructure and sights

In the 19th century, the Pigott and Osborn sugar cane plantations were located here . The Osborns had been resident here since the 17th century (and also near Falmouth and south of All Saints ), in the later 19th century Richard Albert Louden Pigott acquired land here - he was previously based in the east of the island (now Newfield ). The painters also had an estate here (and near Parham ) since the 17th century . Historically, St. Mark's Village can also be found after the local Anglican church.

The place as such only developed after the collapse of the private sugar cane industry after the Second World War. A second phase of settlement took place in the 1970s and early 1980s when the government closed the state-owned Antigua Sugar Factory in 1972 and the land was parceled out for settlement.

Piggotts has two primary schools (Pigotts Primary, Sunny Side School) , a private clinic (Pigotts Clinic) , and four churches, St. Marks Anglican Church ( St. George’s Parish ), Bethany Moravian Church (since 1817), Pigott Pentecostal Church (since the 1950s) and a Seventh Day Adventist Church .

Antigua International Airport, VC Bird , and, to the east, Sir Vivian Richards Stadium are close to the town .

A quarry is in operation on Piggotts Hill.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} National Statistics Office: Census 2001 , Volume I Summary Social, Economic, Demographic, and Housing Characteristics , St. John's, July 2004, Table 8 Population by Enumeration District and Sex. 4. St. Georges . P. 30 ( ab.gov.ag (PDF), ab.gov.ag, there p. 42 - longer loading time).
2. ↑ ^{a b} the official spelling is with "gg", "g" is common in the area
3. ↑ Roger de Peiza (arr.): Antigua and Barbuda National ICT Household Survey , September 29, 2008, Appendix A Detailed List of Enumeration Districts by Parish: St. Paul. P. 34 ( ab.gov.ag (PDF), ab.gov.ag, there p. 39).
4. ^ St. Mark's Village ; see Map of the Island of Antigua ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Alex. A. Camacho, 1933. For article Susan Lowes: The US Bases in Antigua and the New Winthorpes Story. (No longer available online.) In: columbia.edu. Teachers College / Columbia University, archived from the original on March 11, 2014 ; Retrieved on March 14, 2014 (English, in particular section The US Bases ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} History of Pigotts Village , Hugh “Carda” Smith in pigottsreunion2012 , on sites.google.com, accessed March 10, 2014.
6. ↑ As Village Osborne explicitly mentioned in [ The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ( Memento of June 19, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) The Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984, made by the Governor-General under section 65 of the Constitution (Constituencies Boundaries Commission Order, 1984) ] , SI 1984, No. 4, 28th day of February, 1984; in particular Schedule 16. (PDF, antiguaelections.com, p. 11 there)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Herman Moll , Atlas minor , 1716–1732, map The Island of Antego
8. ↑ ^{a b} The Pigotts were probably located here earlier: Captain John Pigott and Captain John Painter were seconded to the House of Assembly for the New North Sound Division (a large part of today's St. Georges Parish) in 1710 . You were involved in the revolt against Governor Colonel Daniel Parke December 7, 1710, and John Pigott is said to have fallen from Parke's hands. Description of the incident in (author unknown): Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants . tape I . Saunders and Otley, 1844, Chapter VII., Section Events of the 7th December, 1710 - Death of colonel Parke . Republished Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition . Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-02777-9 , pp. 77 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search). ; see Appendix . tape II. , No. 11. List of the Members of the House of Assembly at the time of the death of Governor Parke, copied from the Original Returns. , S. 339 ( google book search ). Another view of the “ unfortunate gentleman ” is found in the biography of Daniel Parke, Esq. Capt. Gene. and Chief Governor of the Leeward Islands . In: Mark Noble, James Granger (eds.): A biographical history of England, from the Revolution to the end of George's reign . a continuation of the rev. J. Granger's work. W. Richardson, 1806, p. 179 ( Google eBook, full view ).
9. ↑ Pigott's Land in the Nonsuch Division (today's St. Phillip's Parish) is mentioned around 1817. An Act for granting and securing to the Church of the United Brethren certain lands situated in the Division of Nonsuch, ... Laws of the Island of Antigua. No. 48, dated 15th August 1817; in Anthony Brown: The Laws of the Island of Antigua: Consisting of the Acts of the Leeward Islands, Coming 8 Novem. 1690 Ending April 21, 1798, and the Acts of Antigua Commencing April 10, 1668, ending May 7, 1804 . Bagster, 1805, p.  152 f .
10. ↑ Historical Sites: Gunthorbes Sugar Factory (1904–1972) , Museum of Antigua and Barbuda, antiguahistory.net
11. ↑ Christof Ernst Senft (Ed.): Messages from the Brethren community . tape 2 , Issues 1-5, 1820, Gracehill Report of Antigua, 1817 , pp. 642–652 ( Google eBook, full view ). ; a little more streamlined: Johann Christoph Blumhardt: News from the Brethren community. Magazine for the latest history of evangelical mission and Bible societies . Ed .: Mission Institute. Seventh year, first quarterly volume West India . Basel 1822, missions of the Brethren in Antigua. Gracehill's report on Antigua, 1817, p. 64 ff . ( Google eBook, full view ).
12. ↑ Our History , St. John's Pentecostal House of Restoration Ministries