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Dumfries Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (11)

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] → Owner
William S. Kirkland
- 1765 [LA] → Joint owner
Anthony Malcom
1765 [EA] - → Joint owner
William Tod
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
John McLean
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
George McLean
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
William Scott
1817 [EA] - → Other
Janet McLean (née Urquhart)

It's not clear from the Slave Register of 1817 whether Janet McLean was a joint-owner of Dumfries estate which was in the lawful possession of William Scott proprietor and George McLean executor to the estate of the late John McLean deceased as well as attorney to Janet McLean.

1823 [EA] - → Attorney
John Dallas
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
William S. Kirkland
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
George McLean
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Alexander George Milne junior

Devisee in trust.

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 974A & B (Dumfries Estate)
£10,914 2S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1790
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Dumfries  
[Size] 544  
[Crop] Cotton (96,000 pounds)  
 

Trevor Burnard shows William Todd (sic) as owner of Dumfries in 1790 when it produced 96,000 pounds of cotton worth £5000 with 275 enslaved people.

 
Burnard, Planters, merchants and slaves, p. 143
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 377(Tot) 199(F) 198(M)  
[Name] Dumfries  
 

In lawful possession of William Scott proprietor and George McLean executor to the estate of the late John McLean deceased as well as attorney to Janet McLean.

 
T71/267 213-221
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 374(Tot) 198(F) 176(M)  
[Name] Dumfries Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Dallas as Attorney or Agent for William Kirkland and George McLean, Exors to the Estate of the late John McLean.

 
T71/285 275-276
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 389(Tot) 204(F) 185(M)  
[Name] Dumfries Estate  
 

Registered by Geo. McLean but no more information given.

 
T71/299 317-319
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 408(Tot) 207(F) 201(M)  
[Name] Dumfries Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George McLean as Agent for William S Kirkland and Exor to the Estate of the late John McLean.

 
T71/311 49-50
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 438(Tot) 229(F) 209(M)  
[Name] Dumfries  
 

Belonging to Dumfries Estate in the Island of Carriacou for the Year 1832. No owner's name given but the return signed by Geo. McLean.

 
T71/317 46-47
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 437(Tot) 229(F) 208(M)  
[Name] Dumfries  
 

Belonging to and worked upon Dumfries estate in the Island of Carriacou the property of William Kirkland and their heirs of the late John McLean, and in the possession of George McLean, attorney for the former and executor to the estate of the latter.

 
T71/328 4-18