In 1726 it was bequeathed by General Coddington to a society in England, called "The Society for the promotion of Christian Knowledge." The proceeds of the estate were to be applied to the support of an institution in Barbadoes, for educating missionaries of the established order.

Some of the provisions of the will were that the estate should always have three hundred slaves upon it; that it should support a school for the education of the negro children who were to be taught a portion of every day until they were twelve years old, when they were to go into the field; and that there should be a chapel built upon it.

The negroes belonging to the estate have for upwards of a hundred years been under this kind of instruction.
They have all been taught to read, though in many instances they have forgotten all they learned, having no opportunity to improve after they left school.

They enjoy some other comforts peculiar to the Society's estate.

They have neat cottages built apart--each on a half-acre lot, which belongs to the apprentice and for the cultivation of which he is a allowed one day out of the five working days.