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Rose Hall, Clydeside and Palmyra

St Vincent | St David

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1800 [EY] → Owner
Gavin Hamilton
1800 [EA] - → Joint owner
John Cropper
1800 [EA] - → Joint owner
Nathaniel Basnett Cropper
1800 [EA] - → Joint owner
David Miller of St Vincent

Notes

These estates do not appear (under any of these names) in the Slave Registers nor in the compensation records. Shepard recorded that 'On the 31st July [1795], a most diabolical outrage was committed by a party of about 50 consisting of a few of the former French inhabitants, some free coloured persons, and Negroes. They set fire to Mr Gavin Hamilton's dwelling house, works and Negro houses at Rose Hall, and killed 10 of his slaves and wounded several.' [Shephard, Historical Account, p. 87]. Deeds of 1800 record the sale by Gavin Hamilton to John Cropper, David Miller and Nathaniel Bassnett Cropper of the Rose Hall, Clydeside Hall and Palmyra estates with 145 named enslaved people for £23,000 to be paid to Hamilton's creditors and a further £17,000 to be paid in instalments between 1804 and 1807 (of which they advanced him some £3000, with the balance secured by mortgage) [Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 290 et seq.] It appears that some of the enslaved people named in 1800 were registered in 1817 on Bostock Park.

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1800
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Rose Hall, Clydeside and Palmyra  
 

Deeds of 1800 record the sale by Gavin Hamilton to John Cropper, David Miller and Nathaniel Bassnett Cropper of the Rose Hall, Clydeside and Palmyra estates with 145 named enslaved people for £23,000 to be paid to Hamilton's creditors and a further £17,000 to be paid in instalments between 1804 and 1807 (of which they advanced him some £3000, with the balance secured by mortgage).

 
Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 290 et seq.