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Mount Pleasant Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1773 [EY] → Owner
John Tarleton IV
1776 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Tarleton
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
Matthew Davies
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Davis
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Tarleton

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 998 (Mount Pleasant Estate)
£6,526 2S 0D

Estate Information (8)

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1776
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Not given  
[Crop] Cotton (55,000 pounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Tables 4 and 5.

1790
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
[Crop] Cotton (77,000 pounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Tables 4 and 5.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

In lawful possession of Matthew Davies, attorney to Thomas Tarleton.

 
T71/267 267-271
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot) 122(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas Davis as Attorney to the Trustees of the late Thomas Tarleton Esq decd.

 
T71/285 292
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot) 125(F) 103(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Thomas Davies as attorney to the trustees of the late Thomas Tarleton Esquire deceased.

 
T71/299 307-308
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot) 128(F) 110(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas Davis as Attorney to the Trustees of the late Thomas Tarleton Esq decd.

 
T71/311 53-54
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot) 130(F) 114(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Belonging to Mount Pleasant Estate Carriacou in the Lawful possession of Thomas Davis Atty to the Trustees of the Late Thomas Tarleton Esq deceased.

 
T71/317 25-26
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 256(Tot) 131(F) 125(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant estate  
 

Lawful possession of Thomas Davis attorney for the trustees of Thomas Tarleton Esquire deceased.

 
T71/328 63-71