Breteche and L'Anse La Roche Estates

Estate Details


Associated People (7)

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Executrix
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Previous owner
- 1798 [EY] → Joint owner
1817 [EA] - → Owner
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
1823 [EA] - → Previous owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,925 18S 3D

Estate Information (9)

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1790
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] L'Ance  
[Size] 266  
[Crop] Cotton (26,000 piounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 5.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] L'Ance la Roche  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Walter McInnes as owner.

 
T71/267 249-251
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot) 49(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Lance La Roche  
 

Belonging to or in the possession of Walter McInnes and Robert Starret.

 
T71/275 23-25
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot) 43(F) 29(M)  
[Name] Breteche and Retreat Estates  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Dallas as Proprietor.

 
T71/285 273
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot) 36(F) 35(M)  
[Name] Lance La Roche Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Walter McInnes as Proprietor and Exor of Robert Starret decd.

 
T71/285 242-243
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot) 44(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Breteche Retreat and Lance La Roche  
 

In the lawful possession of John Dallas proprietor.

 
T71/299 310-311
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot) 64(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Breteche Retreat and Lance La Roche  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Dallas as Proprietor.

 
T71/311 44-45
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 58(F) 40(M)  
[Name] Breteche & Lance La Roche Estates  
 

In possession of Eliza Baillie Dallas Widow & Executrix of the Late John Dallas deceased.

 
T71/317 56
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot) 67(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Bretache and Lance La Roche  
 

Belonging to Breteche and Lance La Roche estates in the possession of E.B. Dallas, widow and executrix of the late John Dallas.

 
T71/328 85-89