UCL

Grenada 700 (Plaisance Estate)

Claim Details, Associated Individuals and Estates

23rd Jan 1836 | 124 Enslaved | £3140 18s 5d

Claim Details

Claim Notes

Parliamentary Papers p. 312.

T71/880: claim by Thos. and John Berkeley, owners in fee. Counterclaim by Archibald Paull, of 147 Leadenhall St., as 'mortgagee by Indentr. dated 16th April 1830, £20,000 and upwards'. The counterclaim was admitted. Thos. Berkeley, of London, a merchant, was in Brussels according to St Kitts claim no. 674.

Times 19/03/1839 p. 7: John Henry Earle Berkeley, of Mt. Horne, Grenada, bought the Paradise estate for £35,000 in 1815. In 1826 he bought Mt. Horne and Plaisance; in 1827 he bought Paraclete. He lived in Brussels and visited the West Indies. He died in Grenada.

 

 

Further Information

Colony
Grenada
Claim No.
700
Estate
Plaisance Estate
Contested
Yes

Associated Individuals (3)

Thomas Berkeley
Unsuccessful claimant
John Henry Earle Berkeley
Unsuccessful claimant
Archibald Paull
Awardee (Mortgagee)

Associated Estates (1)

Plaisance Estate [ Grenada ]