UCL

Princes Grove

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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] - 1820 [LA] → Executor
James Corlet
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
John Laidlaw
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Henry John Glanville

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 13 (Princes Grove)
£1,576 12S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot) 27(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Return of John Corlet, deceased owner; returned by James Corlet, executor. St. John.

 
T71/342 364-365
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 28(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Name Not Given  
 

Returned by Jas Corlet, as executor of the estate of John Corlet deceased, owner; shows how the estate was divided with 19 enslaved people being 'levied upon and sold by the marshal and purchased by Brades Lockhart and Kellshal'; 4 enslaved people were purchased at Marshal sale by Lockhart Potter and Court; 24 enslaved people were 'levied upon and sold by the Marshal and purchased by John Laidlaw for the heirs of Wlibraham in payment of their claims'. In the return of Brades, Lockhart and Kelshal, found on folio 14 of T71/348, the estate is identified as Princess Grove Estate. St. John.

 
T71/353 263 - 265
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot) 14(F) 10(M)  
[Name] Princess Grove  
 

Returned by John Laidlaw, attorney for the Wilbraham heirs, owners; the entry is by Wilbraham's surname rather than the name of the estate; it is noted that the enslaved were 'purchased with the estate at Marshal's sales [in] October 1818, the property of the late John Corlet; no 1 to 23 since sold to Horation [sic] N. Huggins who exported them to the island of Trinidad in January 1820'. St. John.

 
T71/353 285
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 16(F) 21(M)  
 

Returned by H J Glanville, owner; purchased 30 enslaved people, the majority of whom were purchased from the devisees of Trocard; includes a full return of the enslaved. The enslaved listed had been transferred to Princess Grove Estate in St. John by 1832. Roseau.

 
T71/361 32-34
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot) 34(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Princes Grove Estate  
 

Return of H. John Glanville, owner. On the increase list, 23 enslaved people were listed as 'formerly returned in Roseau, but now on the Princes [sic] Grove Est.'; 19 were listed as 'purchased. From Fran�ois Minier'; 36 were listed as 'removed from the Grange Est. Parish of St. Peter'; and one enslaved person was listed as being 'purchased. from the est. of W.W. Glanville.' St. John.

 
T71/363 170-172