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Grosse Point

Grenada | St Mark

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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
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Receiver
David McEwen

Notes

This was one of three estates (with Duquesne and Bon Air) confiscated by the British government from Grenadian rebels c. 1797. Grosse Pointe appears to have been discontinued as an estate after 1820, and the enslaved people redistributed to Duquesne and Bon Air, which were retained until the eve of Emancipation. K. J. Kesselring '"Negroes of the Crown": The Management of Slaves Forfeited by Grenadian Rebels, 1796-1831', Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, vol. 22, no 2 (2011), pp. 1-29.

Estate Information (5)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 60  
[Crop] coffee and savannah  
 

In 1763, the estate was 60 acres, of which 40 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee with grassland too. Proprietor given as Ronsier.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 192  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 192 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. No proprietor's name given.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] Grose Point  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as his Majesty's receiver for forfeited properties and worked upon Grose Point Estate.

 
T71/265 288-289
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot) 33(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Grosse Point Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of Confiscated Properties.

 
T71/274 41-43
1824
[Name] Gross Point  
[Size] 192  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 1 in St Mark, corresponding with Lot 2 in St Mark on Paterson's 1780 map. No proprietor listed in 1824, no crops listed, 'forfeited'.

 
'Reference to the plan of the Island of Grenada by Gavin Smith showing the names of all the different estates; the proprietors' names (corrected up to 1824); the species of produce made; and the quantity of land belonging to each' (London, 1882) p. 6