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Mount Rodney Estate

Grenada | St Patrick

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Associated People (6)

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] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Scott
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Castles
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Charles Marryat
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Joseph Marryat
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
John Hoyes of Grenada
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Richard Steele

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 683 (Mount Rodney Estate)
£1,892 16S 9D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lots 5 and 6 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 5 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Mount Rodney.

Estate Information (9)

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1763
[Name] Lot 6  
[Size] 34  
[Crop] coffee and savannah  
 

In 1763, the estate was 34 acres, of which 25 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee with grassland too. Proprietor given as Le Jeune?

 
'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 6  
[Size] 106  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 106 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] 74(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Rodney Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Thomas Scott, attorney to the heirs of Thomas Castle, and worked upon Mount Rodney Estate.

 
T71/265 377-378
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot) 40(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Mount Rodney Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas Scott as Attorney to the Heirs of T. Castle.

 
T71/274 144-145
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot) 39(F) 31(M)  
[Name] Mount Rodney Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas Scott as Attorney to the Heirs of Castle decd.

 
T71/285 89
1824
[Name] Mount Rodney  
[Size] 170  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 5 in St Patrick corresponding with Lots 5 and 6 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 170 acres, proprietor Scott (assumed to be Thomas Scott, in fact the attorney at this time).

 
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] 73(Tot) 40(F) 33(M)  
[Name] Mount Rodney Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Thomas Scott attorney for the trustee of Thomas Castles deceased.

 
T71/299 108-109
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot) 40(F) 33(M)  
[Name] Mount Rodney Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Hoyes as Attorney for Joseph Marryat and Charles Marryat, Trustees for the Parties Interested in the said Estate.

 
T71/311 234
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot) 36(F) 34(M)  
[Name] Mount Rodney  
 

In possession of Richard Steele as the attorney of Joseph and Charles Marryat Esquires.

 
T71/317 216