UCL

Pln Green Field

British Guiana | Demerara

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Paul Massiah

P. Massiah was shown as co-owner in 1817. The connection remains tentative.

1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Isaac Drayton Goddard

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 579 (Pln Green Field)
£11,927 0S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1798
[Name] Green Field  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

'Green Field' shown as Plantation No. 5 under the heading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire G. Green, 500 carreaux C[oton].

NB this is a tentative linkage only

 
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] 203(Tot) 78(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Greenfield  
 

Henry Archer registered 203 enslaved people as atty of P & J. Massiah prop.

NB the connection with Pln Green Field of the compensation records is tentative as yet.

 
T71/397 G3 2263
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 55(F) 82(M)  
[Name] Greenfield  
 

In lawful possession of J.D. Goddard

 
T71/414 380-384
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 231(Tot) 102(F) 129(M)  
[Name] Greenfield  
 

Belonging to Pln Greenfield, in lawful possession of J.D.Goddard by George Bonyum qq.

 
T71/429 5-10
1846
[Name] Greenfield  
 

Shown in 1846 as one of 5 estates in Demerara haven been co-owned by the deceased Alexander Glen and James Glen: Eccles, Profit, Henry, Haagsbosch and Greenfield.

 
London Gazette 20619 03/07/1846 p. 2476