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Sandvoort

British Guiana

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
Donald Charles Cameron

Local secondary material shows Cameron, Davidson and Barkly buying four estates - Dageraad, Sandvoort, St Jan and Dankbaarheid - from the Berbice Association in November 1818, and then dividing them among themselves. Sandvoort was subdivided by the Camerons into Sandvoort and Lochaber.

1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Cameron

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 422 (Sandvoort)
£10,201 3S 10D

Estate Information (5)

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1794
[Name] Santvoort [sic]  
[Crop] Coffee & Cocoa  
 

Santvoort [sic] Caffy en Cacao plantagie. Shown as one of six plantations in Berbice described as 'Behoorenden ann de Ed. Heeren' in 1794, each with a Directeur (in this case G.W. Unger) and Surgeon (in this case unfilled), which appear in three cases (Dageraad, Dankbaarheid and Sandvoort) to correspond to estates shown to have been owned by the Berbice Association of Amsterdam in the Slave Registers.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p. 7
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 226(Tot) 102(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Sandvoort  
 

The 1818 return of slaves attached to Pln Sandvoort situate on the right hand side of River Canje Berbice, the property of the Berbice Association of Amsterdam, by Henrik Staal one of their agents 12/11/1817. The register has a total of 'Amount 126', but that is clearly erroneous.

 
T71/437 30-31
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] Sandvoort  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Sandvoort situate in the Canje Creek, the property of D.C. and John Cameron made by John Cameron for himself and D.C.Cameron. Total number of slaves 01/01/1822 221. Acquisitions 19 (6M 13F); deductions 32 (15M 17F), number remaining 208 22/03/1825. [All the deductions were deaths].

 
T71/442 205-208
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Sandvoort  
 

Return of slaves the property of D.C. and John Cameron attached to Pln Sandvoort situate in the Canje River, made by John Cameron for himself and D.C.Cameron

 
T71/443 611-614
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Sandvoort  
 

Return of slaves the property of D.C. and John Cameron attached to Pln Sandvoort situate on the West Bank of the River Canje, made by John Cameron for himself and D.C.Cameron

 
T71/444 139-142