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Paradise and Cane Farm

Trinidad | Tacarigua and Arouca

Estate Details

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
- 1811 [EY] → Owner
Samuel Span the younger
1813 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Samuel Span the younger

Samuel Span deceased was shown as the owner between 1813 and 1834.

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1458A & B (Paradise and Cane Farm)
£8,304 0S 0D

Estate Information (8)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise & Cane Farm  
 

Sugar plantation owned by heirs of Samuel Span Esq. decd.of which Benjamin Bickley of Bristol, through Rowland Davis Taylor manager is in possession as managing executor of the said Samuel Span and trustee of his heirs by Robert Neilson and Georg Knox esq. his executors.

 
T71/501 47-57
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William Power, manager, for the heirs of Samuel Span, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/508 321 v - 322 v
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Robert Neilson, judicial administrator, for the heirs of Samuel Span, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/511 404 v - 405 v
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Robert Neilson, administrator, for the creditors and heirs of Samuel Span, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/513 402 - 402 v
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return by William Neilson, attorney of Robert Neilson the judicial administrator, owned by the heirs and creditors of the late Samuel Span.

 
T71/515 1941
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Wilson, attorney of the judicial administrator, for the creditors and heirs of Samuel Span [increase by births].

 
T 71/517 225 v - 226
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Wilson, agent, for the heirs of Samuel Span, owners, late the property of the creditors and heirs of Span [increase by births].

 
T 71/519 276 v - 278
1845
[Name] Paradise and Cane Farm  
 

Decree of the Supreme Civil Court in Trinidad, 30/01/1846 regarding the creditors of Samuel Span, deceased, and of Paradise and Cane Garden estates. Notice for creditors to come forward. Query as to what sums of money are outstanding from the debt to Catherine Crafton for the sum of nearly £8000 and the further sum of £3000 four per cent bank annuities from the articles of agreement dated 29/10/1823.

 
London Gazette Issue 20630 p. 2895