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Grenada | St George

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Associated People (2)

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
1772 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Joint owner
Alexander John Alexander
1780 [EA] - → Joint owner
William Alexander

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier de la Basse-Terre and the parish of St. George, identified as lot 17 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780). Not yet identified in the slave registers or compensation records.

Estate Information (3)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 86  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 85.5 acres, of which 70 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as De Mareuil.

 
'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
1772
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 300  
[Crop] sugar  
 

An estate in St George, proprietor given as Alexander John Alexander. 230 acres growing canes, pasture and provisions; 70 acres of woodland. A watermill.

 
CO 101/5 147
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 273  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 273 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. Proprietors given as Will. and Al. John Alexander, 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