Enfield and Nomen Nescio

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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] → Previous owner

Douglas, Gallaway had sold its interest in the enslaved people on Enfield ahead of the 1825 Slave Registration


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£13,522 6S 5D

Estate Information (10)

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1794
[Name] Nomen Nescio  
 

Plantagie Nomen Nescio. Eigenaar [owner] Joh. van den Broek; Adminis. Joh. van den Broek

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.11
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 43(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Enfield  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Enfield situate within the colony of Berbice, the property of M.S. Bennett and John Downer, this return made by John Downer. An additional section shows 'Negroes bought at the sale of Plantations Kinderen and Zuid Holland since 01/10/1817 and attached to Plantation Enfield', 8 people,4 male and 4 female [not included in the totals above].

 
T71/437 106-107
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 64(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Nomen Nescio  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Nomen Nescio situate in the River Berbice property of J. van den Broek. This return by J. van den Broek 30/12/1817.

 
T71/437 380-382
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot) 76(F) 126(M)  
[Name] Enfield  
 

Return of slaves the property of John Tapin attached to Pln Enfield, return made by Charles Kyte atty to John Tapin. 205 enslaved people purchased from Douglas, Galloway; seven births; ten deaths (4m 6f) = 202

 
T71/442 699-708
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Nomen Nescio  
 

Return of slaves the property of Nath. Winter & Co. attached to Pln Nomen Nescio, this return made by their attorney William Ross 24/03/1825. Number of slaves per last return (01/01/1822) '135 heads'. Acquisitions 10 (6M 4F) deductions 32 (16M 16F), total 113.

 
T71/442 55-58
1825
[Name] Enfield  
 

Return of slaves the property of Douglas Galloway & Co. and attached to plantation Enfield, this return made by Colin Douglas one of the partners. 222+ 9 (5m 4f) - 231 = 0. The enslaved people were sold to John Tapin.

 
T71/442 357-368
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Enfield  
 

Return of slaves the property of John Tapin Esq., attached to Pln Enfield by Charles Kyte attorney to John Tapin.

 
T71/443 689-690
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Enfield  
 

Property of William Nicolson and attached to Pln Enfield by himself. Most people had been purchased from John Tapin late proprietor of Pln Enfield

 
T71/444 431-444
1831
[Name] Enfield  
 

Return of slaves the property of John Tapin Esq., attached to Pln Enfield by Charles Kyte attorney to John Tapin. The entry records the sale of the enslaved people to W. Nicolson.

 
T71/444 650-661
1841
[Name] Enfield  
 

County of Berbice.—Sale by Execution. PURSUANT to authority granted by his Honour Jeffery Hart Bent, Chief Justice of British Guiana, dated the 3d December 1840; I, the undersigned, Marshal for the county of Berbice, will, through the Vendue Master, expose for sale to the highest bidder, in presence of the Registrar of the Court of Justice, or a Sworn Clerk, at the premises, in the month of January 1842, the precise day hereafter to be named, at eleven o'clock A. M. firstly, in. behalf of the mercantile firm of Robert Semple and Company, plaintiffs, versus the owner or owners, representative or representatives, of the sugar plantation Enfield, situate qn the east bank of the River Berbice, cum annexis, defendants; and secondly, in behalf of the mercantile firm of J. A. Edwards and Company, plaintiffs, versus C. Matheson, in his capacity as attorney of William Nicolson, owner of the sugar plantation Enfield, situate on the east bank of the River Berbice, defendant; The said sugar plantation Enfield* comprising the land, buildings, machinery, cultivation, and further appurtenances, situate as aforesaid. An inventory of said property is now lying at the Mar-- shal's Office, in Berbice, for the inspection of those concerned. : Marshal's Office, Berbice, this 30th day of April 1841. K. FRANCKEN, Marshal.

 
London Gazette 20005 p. 2036