UCL

Breteche and L'Anse La Roche Estates

Grenada | Carriacou

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
Elizabeth Baillie Dallas
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Previous owner
John Dallas
- 1798 [EY] → Joint owner
Philip Wilson of Tobago
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Walter McInnes
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
John Dallas
1823 [EA] - → Joint owner
Walter McInnes
1823 [EA] - → Previous owner
Robert Starret

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 976 (Breteche and L'Anse La Roche Estates)
£2,925 18S 3D

Estate Information (9)

What is this?

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