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Vreed-en-Hoop

British Guiana

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1821 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder
John Gladstone

'In April 1821 Gladstone and Co. had taken over the agency for [Jonas] Fileen's estates together with a large part of the mortgage debt.'

1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
Jonas Fileen
1822 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
Jonas Fileen
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Gladstone

John Gladstone had negotiated to buy Vreedenhoop [and possibly Waller's delight and Coverden] after Jonas Fileen's death in March 1822. In December 1825 he reached an agreement with Paul Edward Fileen, alleged brother and heir of Jonas Fileen for £80,000. A rival claim by Judith Susannah Fileen delayed the purchase until 1828.

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 687 (Vreed-en-Hoop)
£22,443 19S 11D

Estate Information (6)

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1798
[Name] Vreed en Hoop  
 

Vreede en Hoop, shown as plantation no. 5 under the heading 'A la cote occidentale de Demerarie', proprietaire Erve J. Lespinasse, 175 carreaux, K [coffee]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1798
[Name] Swaan Schut [sic]  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Swaan Schut [sic], shown as plantation no. 4 under the heading of 'A la cote occidentale de Demerarie', proprietaire S. Swen, 425 carreaux, K [coffee]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 369(Tot) 135(F) 234(M)  
[Name] Vreed en Hoop and Swaanenschulz  
 

Jonas Fileen proprietor

 
T71/397 V4 2861
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 372(Tot) 169(F) 203(M)  
[Name] Vreeden Hoop  
 

In lawful possession of H.J. Tulchan, W.J. Armstrong and C. Wilday as attorneys of the heirs of Jonas Fileen

 
T71/418 2193-2202
1832
[Name] Vreed-en-Hoop  
 

Vreed-en-hoop was the site of pioneering experiments in sugar processing via vacuum pan technology by Thomas Dodson in 1832. The technology was subsequently diffused rapidly through the wider Caribbean sugar economy. See José Guadalupe Ortega, 'Machines, modernity, and sugar: the Greater Caribbean in a global context, 1812–50', Journal of Global History, 9.1 (March 2014), pp 1-25.

1832
[Number of enslaved people] 472(Tot) 243(F) 229(M)  
[Name] Vreed en Hoop  
 

Belonging to Pln Vreed en Hoop in lawful possession of John Gladstone by his atty John MacLean.

 
T71/431 833-844