UCL

Richmond

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1782 [EY] → Owner
Benjamin Grahame

In his will made in 1782 Benjamin Grahame showed himself as the owner of an estate named Richmond on Dominica that he had leased to Thomas Bushby and that he ordered to be sold at the end of the lease-term. It is not certain that it is the same Richmond estate as that in the Slave Registers.

1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Stuart

Given only as Stewart in 1817 and as Henry Stewart thereafter, inferred by LBS to have been the man given as Henry Stuart in the compensation records.

1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
James Laing

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot) 81(F) 59(M)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

Return of James Laing and [first name not given] Stewart, joint owners; returned by John Laidlaw, attorney. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. David.

 
T71/344 501-505
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 10(Tot) 4(F) 6(M)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Returned by William Bremner, attorney for an unnamed owner; 124 enslaved people were sold (2 to John McPherson 1 June 1818 of Demerara; 18 to Glanville and Court 23 July 1818 for Grange Estate, 8 to Sugar Loaf Estate, 6 Glanville and Court 2 August 1818 for Grange Estate, 14 Goodwill Estate, 22 Canefield Estate, 9 to Hillsborough Estate, 4 to Clark Hall Estate, 21 to Macconchery Estate, 8 to 'Charles Court attorney of Thomas Watt, executor of Walter Trail and placed on Melville Hall Estate in the room of Marthe's family', 11 Union Estate. St. David.

 
T71/355 326 -330
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 9(Tot) 4(F) 5(M)  
[Name] Richmond Estate  
 

Return of James Laing and Henry Stewart, joint owners; returned by John Laidlaw, attorney. St. David.

 
T71/358 242
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 7(Tot) 3(F) 4(M)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

Returned by D S Laidlaw, attorney to James Laing and Henry Stewart, joint owners. St. David.

 
T71/360 211