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Mount Pleasant

St Vincent | St George

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
- 1807 [EY] → Owner
Gilbert Douglas
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Cecilia Douglas (née Douglas)
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Robertson
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Murdoch Robertson

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 490A & B (Mount Pleasant)
£6,027 5S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Mount Pleasant Estate. Statement sworn by James Anderson.

 
T71/493 158-163
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 265(Tot) 138(F) 127(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Messrs. Robertson and Mrs Douglas. Statement sworn by James Anderson.

 
T71/495 69-71
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 261(Tot) 134(F) 127(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Messrs. Robertson and Mrs Douglas.

 
T71/497 48-49
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot) 125(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Messrs. Robertson and Mrs Douglas. Statement sworn by James Porter [28 deaths].

 
T71/497 77-78
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot) 126(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Messrs Robertson and Mrs Douglas. Statement sworn by James Porter [18 deaths, 7 manumissions].

 
T71/499 69-70
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot) 119(F) 111(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Mount Pleasant Estate. The property of Messrs. Robertson and Mrs Douglas. Statement sworn by James Porter [1 enslaved person declared as having obtained freedom under the third section of the Slavery Abolition Act, having been in England]. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 230 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 108-110