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Lot 31, St David

Grenada | St David

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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] - → Owner
John Anthony Rucker of West Hill

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier du Megrin and the parish of St. David, identified as lot 31 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780). Not yet identified in the slave registers or compensation records.

Estate Information (2)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 88  
[Crop] coffee and cocoa  
 

In 1763, the estate was 88.1 acres, of which 65 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee and cocoa. Proprietor given as Darbo.

 
'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] [no name given]  
[Size] 281  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 281 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. Proprietor given as John Anthony Rucker, 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