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Lot 38, St Patrick

Grenada | St Patrick

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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
1780 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Joint owner
Duncan Davidson senior

The owners were given as 'Davisons Esq.' LBS has inferred this to refer to the first Davidson partners, known to have been active in the Caribbean at this time.

1780 [EA] - 1780 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Davidson the eldest

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 38 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] 75  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 75.1 acres, of which 64 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. 56 acres of new land listed as east of the river and 19.1 acres west of the river. No proprietor named.

 
'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] 240  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 240 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. Proprietor given as Davisons, 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