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Prospect Hill Estate / Morn Sansos

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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Dr Alexander Lumsden
1820 [EA] - → Not known
Hon. Andrew Houstoun
1820 [EA] - → Not known
David McEwen
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Joseph Simpson

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 681 (Prospect Hill Estate)
£1,413 18S 7D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 10 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estates 9 and 10 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Morn Sansos but in the slave registers as Prospect Hill. A cotton estate in 1824 adjoining David estate was in the same ownership in 1824 growing provisions.

Estate Information (9)

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1763
[Name] Lot 10  
[Size] 8  
[Crop] coffee  
 

In 1763, the estate was 8 acres, of which 8 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee. Proprietor given as Desnoyeres.

 
'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] Lot 10  
[Size] 25  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 25 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. No proprietor's name given.

 
'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] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Hill Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Alexander Lumsden.

 
T71/265 402
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot) 19(F) 31(M)  
[Name] Prospect Hill  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Alexander Lumsden and in the possession of Andrew Houstoun and David McEwen.

 
T71/274 157
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot) 18(F) 30(M)  
[Name] Prospect Hill Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Alexander Lumsden as Proprietor.

 
T71/285 78-79
1824
[Name] Morn Sansos  
[Size] 60  
[Crop] cotton  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estates 9 and 10 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 10 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as cotton, 60 acres, proprietor Alexander Lumsden.

 
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] 54(Tot) 22(F) 32(M)  
[Name] Prospect Hill Estate  
 

Belonging to Alexr. Lumsden proprietor.

 
T71/299 129
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot) 24(F) 30(M)  
[Name] Prospect Hill Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Joseph Simpson as Attorney of Alexander Lumsden.

 
T71/311 218
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot) 23(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Prospect Hill Estate  
 

Belonging to Alexander Lumsden proprietor of Prospect Hill Estate.

 
T71/317 178-179