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Samaritan

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
- 1809 [EY] → Owner
Sir Alexander Hamilton

Inferred to be part of the unspecified property on Grenada left by Sir Alexander Hamilton in his will proved in 1809.

- 1801 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Andrew Loughnan senior

In 1801 the life-interest of Andrew Loughnan should he survive his wife, and his absolute right should he survive his wife without issue, in £2000 secured on the La Samaritaine estate and the enslaved people on it in St Patrick Grenada were placed for auction after the bankruptcy of Cheap, Loughnan, subject to a mortgage debt of £26,000 an annuity of £300 p.a. to a lady aged 54 or thereabouts and a further £2000 to a co-legatee on the estate, together with his tenancy by courtesy of one moiety of the estate.

1780 [EA] - → Owner
Robert Hamilton
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Alexander Hamilton Hamilton formerly Kelso
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Hon. Andrew Houstoun
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
George Paterson

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 685 (Samaritan)
£2,862 5S 3D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lots 12 and 13 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 12 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Samaritan.

Newspaper reports connect Samaritan estate to the ancestors of the racing driver Lewis Hamilton, see The Herald 23/07/2007 via https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-herald/20070723/281784214690402 [accessed 14/05/2018].

Estate Information (17)

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1763
[Name] Lot 12  
[Size] 59  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 58.5 acres, of which 56 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. 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 12  
[Size] 187  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 187 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. Proprietor given as Robert Hamilton, Esqrs.

 
'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] 30(Tot)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as attorney to Alexander Hamilton Hamilton and hired to Samaritan Estate.

 
T71/265 424
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as attorney to Alexander Hamilton Hamilton.

 
T71/265 421-423
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot) 13(F) 16(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as Attorney of Alexander H Hamilton.

 
T71/274 168-169
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 63(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as Attorney of Alexander H Hamilton.

 
T71/274 169
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot) 26(F) 29(M)  
[Name] Silver Arm Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Isaac Horsford, position not recorded.

 
T71/274 256
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot) 12(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as Attorney for Alexander Hamilton Hamilton.

 
T71/285 98
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 58(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as Attorney for Alexander Hamilton Hamilton.

 
T71/285 99
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot) 24(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Silver Arm Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Isaac Horsford as Proprietor.

 
T71/285 143-144
1824
[Name] Samaritan  
[Size] 285  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 12 in St Patrick corresponding with Lots 12 and 13 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 285 acres, proprietor Hamilton.

1826
[Number of enslaved people] 112(Tot) 56(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to Samaritan estate and in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as attorney for Alexander Hamilton Hamilton proprietor.

 
T71/299 121
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot) 11(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to Alexander Hamilton Hamilton and worked upon Samaritan estate, in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun his attorney.

 
T71/299 120-121
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 55(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

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

 
T71/311 184-185
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 19(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Andrew Houstoun as Attorney to Alexander Hamilton Hamilton.

 
T71/311 185-186
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 53(F) 49(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

By George Paterson attorney. No owners' names given.

 
T71/317 175-176
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot) 17(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Samaritan Estate  
 

Belonging to Alexander Hamilton Hamilton and worked upon Samaritan Estate by George Paterson attorney.

 
T71/317 176-177