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Grand Mal Estate

Grenada

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
- 1811 [LA] → Owner
Alexander McSween
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Charles McSween
1817 [EA] - → Agent
John Ross senior
1820 [EA] - → Not known
John Ross senior
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Henry Church
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Receiver
John Ross senior
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Trustee
John Ross senior
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
Lewis Hoyes
1829 [EA] - → Agent
Lewis Hoyes
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
Francis Jemmett

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 433 (Grand Mal Estate)
£2,318 14S 1D

Estate Information (12)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Mall Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Ross as Receiver or Agent for Grand Mall Estate.

 
T71/265 173-175
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Mall Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of John Ross, said to be the Property of Charles McSween now in India and usually worked upon Grand Mal Estate.

 
T71/265 175-176
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot) 50(F) 66(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Ross, position not recorded.

 
T71/273 375
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot) 30(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Ross, position not recorded; said to be the property of Charles McSween in India.

 
T71/273 374-375
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot) 25(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert Henry Church as Attorney of John Ross, Trustee for Charles MacSween.

 
T71/286 326
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot) 74(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert Henry Church as Attorney of John Ross, Receiver or Agent.

 
T71/286 327-328
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 47(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging and attached to and worked upon Grand Mal Estate and in the lawful possession of Robert Henry Church attorney of John Ross receiver or agent for the same.

 
T71/298 354
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot) 25(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Attached to and worked upon Grand Mal Estate in the lawful possession of Robert Henry Church attorney of John Ross trustee of Charles McSween.

 
T71/298 354-355
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot) 49(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Lewis Hoyes as Acting Receiver.

 
T71/312 07-Aug
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot) 28(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Lewis Hoyes as Agent for Charles MacSween.

 
T71/312 09-Oct
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot) 40(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Grand Mal Estate  
 

Attached and belonging to Grand Mal Estate and in the lawful possession of Francis Jennett, Receiver.

 
T71/318 379-380
1833
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Mal  
[Size] 345  
[Stock] 45  
 

For sale following a Chancery decree in the case Codrington vs. Lang, mid-December 1833: an estate called Grand Mal in St George, Grenada.

 
London Gazette, part 2 19079 p. 1591 (27/08/1833)