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Marli 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] - → Owner
William Stuart
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
William Cruickshank
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
George Paterson
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
George Paterson junior
1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
James Smith of Jordanhill

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring [from John Ryburn and Andrew Ranken] a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846.' PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2, and 163, Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.

1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Archibald Smith

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring [from John Ryburn and Andrew Ranken] a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846.' PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2 and 163. Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 687 (Marli Estate)
£4,926 7S 9D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 18 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 20 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Marli.

Estate Information (9)

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1763
[Name] Lot 18  
[Size] 170  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 169.5 acres, of which 120 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as Eustache de Louvigny.

 
'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 18  
[Size] 542  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 542 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a cattle mill. Proprietor given as Ostin.

 
'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] 92(Tot)  
[Name] Marly Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Cruickshank as attorney for William Stuart Esqr proprietor.

 
T71/265 371-374
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 111(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Marly Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Paterson, position not recorded.

 
T71/274 148-150
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot) 113(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Marli Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Paterson as Proprietor.

 
T71/285 106-107
1824
[Name] Marli  
[Size] 542  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 20 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 18 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 542 acres, proprietor George Patterson.

 
'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] 192(Tot) 109(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Marlie Estate  
 

Belonging to George Paterson proprietor.

 
T71/299 88
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 109(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Marli Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Paterson jnr as Attorney to George Paterson.

 
T71/311 205-206
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 107(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Marli Estate  
 

Belonging to Geo. Paterson proprietor of Marli Estate.

 
T71/317 174-175