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Long Bay

Virgin Islands | Tortola

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1824 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Buyer
George Dennistoun

G & R Dennistoun bought 66 enslaved people at a Marshal's sale in the Virgin Islands and shipped 57 to Trinidad in 1824.

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (4)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot) 30(F) 30(M)  
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
 

Return of John Hanley, owner

 
T 71/370 129-131
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot) 31(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Long Bay Estate  
 

Owner: Estate of John Hanley deceased in the possession of Ann Maria Hanley, Joseph Harragin, & William Rogers Isaacs as executrix and executors; returned by John Jackson as manager; Tortola

 
T 71/371 449-450
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot) 34(F) 32(M)  
 

Owner: Estate of John Hanley Esquire deceased and in the lawful possession of Ann Maria Hanley, Joseph Harragin and William Rogers Isaacs as executrix and executors; returned by William Rogers Isaacs; all 66 enslaved people are listed as being sold to William Rogers Isaacs as attorney to Messrs George & Robert Dennistoun & Co. of Glasgow on 25 October 1823; Tortola

 
T 71/372 564-566
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 8(Tot) 4(F) 4(M)  
 

Return of Messrs George & Robert Dennistoun & Co of Glasgow, owner; 66 enslaved people were bought at Marshal's sale, late the property of John Hanley Esquire deceased, 25 October 1823; The decrease list shows that 57 enslaved people were 'shipped for the island of Trinidad on board the Brig Rosehill in December 1824' by Dennistoun & Co; 2 people were deeded to Louisa Augusta Hanley, daughter of the Late John Hanley Esq., and the remaining 8 people were left in the possession of William Rogers Isaacs as company's attorney; Tortola

 
T 71/372 567-570