Port Royal (or Lot 61, St Andrew)

Port Royal estate appears in the 1785 Deed Book for St Vincent in a series of transactions in which William Macintosh bought Port Royal and Mendon of 250 acres in St Andrew Grenada in 1763 from Wm Fournay de la Grandiere (and separately a second estate called the Union of 112 acres in 1765 from Claude Lamellerie). Macintosh initially borrowed £5000 against the estates (and enslaved people attached to them) from George Johnstone and John Rae on the City of London, and then mortgaged the estates (and people) to Henry Hope in 1770 to raise £20,000 or 220,000 guilders. Macintosh then in 1774 sold Charles Grant the Union estate and about 100 acres of Port Royal and Mendon, together with 54 enslaved people, and in 1775 he sold to Thomas Baker the Port Royal estate with 94 'negroes' for £24,000, reduced to £22,000 to take account of the agreed value of an annuity of £275 p.a to Nicholas Ray of London secured on the estate (and enslaved people). Baker retained £10,000 of the purchase price as an indemnity for any claim from Henry Hope under the mortgage. In 1785 Macintosh sold what appears to have been the equity of redemption to Thomas Bridgwater for £3000, implying Baker had defaulted on his purchase and the estate had returned to Macintosh's control. Several secondary sources note that in 1798 William Pulteney rented 'his' enslaved people on Port Royal to Westerhall: the Slave Registers show that these people were later sold to Westerhall, and Port Royal itself does not appear in the Registers or in the compensation records.

In 1770, William Macintosh mortgaged his estates and enslaved people on Grenada to Henry Hope of Amsterdam to raise £20,000 or 220,000 guilders. Samuel Hoare, John Harman, Jeremiah Harman and Alexander Fordyce were later added, possibly as trustees, while Wm. Pulteney, John Macintosh and Samuel Hannay stood as sureties or guarantors on the debt to Henry Hope. Macintosh then in 1774 sold Charles Grant the Union estate and about 100 acres of Port Royal and Mendon, together with 54 enslaved people, and in 1775 he sold to Thomas Baker the Port Royal estate with 94 'negroes' for £24,000, reduced to £22,000 to take account of the agreed value of an annuity of £275 p.a to Nicholas Ray of London secured on the estate (and enslaved people). Baker retained £10,000 of the purchase price as an indemnity for any claim from Henry Hope under the mortgage.

Thomas Baker Attorney General of Grenada purchased Port Royal with 94 enslaved people from William Macintosh in 1775 for £22,000.

Nicholas Ray of the City of London had an annuity of £275 p.a. secured on Port Royal which was valued at an agreed £2000 by the buyer and seller when William Macintosh sold the estate subject to the annuity to Thomas Baker for £22,000 in 1775.

In 1798, Pulteney rented 'his' enslaved people on Port Royal to the Westerhall estate of his brother's family. These enslaved people were later sold to Westerhall. Pulteney had earlier been one of the men standing security for the £20,000 mortgage lent in 1770 by Henry Hope to William Macintosh secured on Port Royal and other estates in Grenada.