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Duquesne Estate

Grenada | St Patrick

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Associated People (4)

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
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
David McEwen
1832 [EA] - → Not known
G. De Bellot
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Not known
James Gerbe[r]t Dumont
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-in-common
Charles De Bellot

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 684 (Duquesne Estate)
£3,333 11S 6D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 11 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 11 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Duquesne. This was one of three estates (with Grosse Pointe and Bon Air) confiscated by the British government from Grenadian rebels c. 1797. The Duquesne, Bon Air, Plaisance and Grosse Pointe estate were advertised for sale in 1809 [London Gazette 16287 15/08/1809 p. 1307]. Grosse Pointe appears to have been discontinued as an estate after 1820, and the enslaved people redistributed to Duquesne and Bon Air, which were retained until the eve of Emancipation. Two new small cotton estates were formed out of the eastern end of Duquesne at some point before 1824 - see Mount Airy and 'Unknown (Estate 8)'.

Sources

K. J. Kesselring '"Negroes of the Crown": The Management of Slaves Forfeited by Grenadian Rebels, 1796-1831', Journal of the Canadian Historical Association - Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, vol. 22, no 2 (2011), pp. 1-29.

Estate Information (10)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 93  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 92.5 acres, of which 80 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as the Clozier brothers.

 
'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
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 296  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 296 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. Proprietor given as Clozier _________.

 
'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
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen, proprietor.

 
T71/265 346
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen, His Majesty's Receiver for Confiscated Properties and worked upon Duqusne Estate in the parish of St Patrick.

 
T71/265 346-348
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 72(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of Confiscated Properties.

 
T71/274 112-115
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot) 65(F) 88(M)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of confiscated estates.

 
T71/285 109
1824
[Name] Duquesne  
[Size] 334  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 11 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 11 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 334 acres, 'forfeited'.

 
'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
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 62(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

In the possession of David McEwen receiver of confiscated estates.

 
T71/299 131
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot) 65(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of confiscated estates.

 
T71/311 186-187
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 135(Tot) 65(F) 70(M)  
[Name] Duquesne Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of George [=Charles?] De Bellot for the heirs of Passee & Cloziers.

 
T71/317 184-185