UCL

Grand Sable Estate

St Vincent

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
- 1825 [EY] → Owner
Lt Col. Thomas Browne
1825 [SY] - 1839 [EY] → Owner
Rev. Thomas Alexander Browne
1809 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Moss

Under deeds of lease and release of 20 and 21/08/1809 Thomas Browne conveyed to John Moss all his plantations in the Charaib country to secure £20,000 and upward owed to John Moss and further amounts to James Moss & Co. It appears it was later remortgaged to the Snell Chauncy firm of London.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Nathaniel Snell Chauncy

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 455 & 455A (Grand Sable Estate)
£17,753 5S 7D

Notes

The demographic experience of the enslaved people on this estate in late slavery has been the subject of a detailed study by Simon D. Smith, '"Not that of mere accident, but of humane treatment": Natural increase and "amelioration" on Grand Sable Estate, St Vincent', Continuity and Change, 33(1), (2018), pp. 117-44.

A letter dated 05/09/1821 from a J. V. Vanloo (?), possibly the manager of Grand Sable Estate, was posted from St Vincent to Philip Monoux Lucas in London. The letter makes reference to legal proceedings and large amounts of money owed by certain individuals in relation to the Grand Sable Estate.

We are grateful to John Allan Sanderson for his assistance in compiling this entry.

Sources

Simon D. Smith, '"Not that of mere accident, but of humane treatment": Natural increase and "amelioration" on Grand Sable Estate, St Vincent', Continuity and Change, 33(1), (2018), pp. 117-44.

Letter to Philip Monoux Lucas from St Vincent dated 5th September 1821. Private collection of John Allan Sanderson.

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 587(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Sable Estate  
 

Grand Sable Estate. Statement made by Thompson Harrison as manager. Very few enslaved people listed as "privileged"

 
T71/493 20-31
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 630(Tot) 322(F) 308(M)  
[Name] Grand Sable  
 

Thomas Browne. Statement made by Thompson Harrison as manager [increase by births].

 
T71/495 11-15
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 671(Tot) 343(F) 328(M)  
[Name] Grand Sable Estate  
 

Thomas Brown [increase mainly by births,1 enslaved person by purchase and 5 enslaved people imported from the Bahamas in the sloop George and Thomas, Captain John McArthur, 9 March 1824].

 
T71/497 8-11
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 689(Tot) 361(F) 328(M)  
[Name] Grand Sable Estate  
 

Grand Sable Estate. Statement by Thomson Harrison [increase by births, only 2 enslaved people purchased from the estate of Dr Armstrong].

 
T71/497 2-6
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 679(Tot) 356(F) 323(M)  
[Name] Grand Sable Estate  
 

Grand Sable Estate. Statement by Joseph Latham [decrease by deaths and 5 manumissions, 1 runaway].

 
T71/499 16-20
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 696(Tot) 363(F) 333(M)  
[Name] Grand Sable Estate  
 

Grand Sable Estate. Property of Reverend Thomas Alexander Browne. Statement sworn by himself. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 697 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 14-21