Mount Alexander

[Name] Lot 3  
[Size] 119  
[Crop] coffee and savannah  

In 1763, the estate was 118.5 acres, of which 70 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee with grassland too. Proprietors given as Jean and Michael Paponet.

'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

[Name] Mount Alexander  

In July 1777, Alexander Houstoun & co. took over the ownership of the Mount Alexander estate from their debtor Alexander Wilson, Douglas Hamilton’s ‘Scottish Trading in the Caribbean: The Rise and Fall of Houstoun & Co.’, in Ned C. Landsman (ed), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2001).

[Name] Lot 3  
[Size] 379  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 379 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

[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro, attorney of Aron Graham, Henry Litchfield and Joseph Kaye, trustees of Messrs. A. Houstoun & Co. and worked upon Mount Alexander Estate.

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[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 107(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of the Trustees and Exors of William McDowall of Garthland decd.

T71/274 142-143

[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 108(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of the Exors and Trustees of William McDowall decd.

T71/285 112-113

[Name] Mount Alexander  
[Size] 379  
[Crop] sugar  

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 4 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 3 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 379 acres, proprietor A. McDowall.

'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. 7

[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 112(F) 85(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  

In possession of George Gun Munro attorney of the executors and trustees of William McDowall deceased.

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[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 109(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Lewis Hoyes as Attorney for the Exor and Trustee of William McDowall decd.

T71/311 230-231

[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 111(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander  

By Colin Duncan Sutherland attorney. No owner's name given.

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