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Grenada | St George

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Associated People (1)

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
1780 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Owner
Alexander Symson of Grenada

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier de la Basse-Terre and the parish of St. George, identified as lot 44 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780). Not yet identified in the slave registers or compensation records.

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 50  
[Crop] coffee  
 

In 1763, the estate was 50 acres, of which 12 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee. Proprietors given as Blandin and Chassagnac.

 
'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
1780
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 194  
[Crop] coffee  
 

Coffee estate in St George, Grenada, proprietor given as Alexander Symson. 134 acres growing coffee, pasture and provisions; 60 acres woodland.

 
CO 101/5 147v
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 160  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 160 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. Proprietor given as Alex. Symson, Esq.

 
'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