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Hermitage Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1803 [SY] - 1827 [LA] → Heir
Rev. Peter William Pegus
1790 [EA] - → Owner
Peter Pegus

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. Table 4 shows Pegus as 'Inhabitant' for a cotton estate of 224 acres (200 cleared) with 97 enslaved people producing 32,800 pounds of cotton.

1817 [EA] - → Previous owner
Peter Pegus
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Joseph Ventaur
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Pierre Aman Belfon

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 935 (Hermitage Estate)
£1,412 4S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1776
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
[Crop] Cotton (32,800 pounds)  
 

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 Tables 4 and 5.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Joseph Ventaur as attorney for Peter Pigus[?] deceased.

 
T71/267 238-240
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 25(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of P A Belfon.

 
T71/285 259-260
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot) 25(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to P.A. Belfon and attached to Hermitage Estate in the colony of Grenada.

 
T71/299 273-274
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot) 23(F) 25(M)  
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of P A Belfon.

 
T71/311 30-31
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot) 27(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to P.A. Belfon and attached to Hermitage Estate in the Colony of Grenada.

 
T71/317 23-24
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 25(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Hermitage Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of P.A. Belfon and attached to Hermitage Estate in the Island of Carriacou.

 
T71/328 124-126