UCL

Camden

Trinidad | Couva

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
1813 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Alexander Fraser of Inchcoulter
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Owner
William Lushington senior

'Owned by Wm. Lushington Esq. his heirs or assignees in possession of R. Purcell as sequestrator and receiver thereof for the time being.'

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1641 (Camden)
£6,042 8S 3D

Notes

  1. The 1813 Indenture of Release of the Camden estate, representing the release of the Estates and Effects then owned by Charles Boldero, Edward and Grace Boldero, Sir Henry Lushington and Barnet [sic] and Henry Boldero of Cornhill, London, has been transcribed by the Trinidad & Tobago National Library and Information System Authority. The estate was sold to the purchasers, John Stewart and Alexander Fraser (both of Crossing Square, London) by the Bank of England due to bankruptcy. The plantation was bought by auction and the transaction of purchase was settled in the Chancery Court.

After payment, John Stewart and Alexander Fraser received a Certificate of the Negroes and other Slaves on the Camden Estate dated 31st March, 1813. The certification of the number of slaves on the Camden Plantation noted to be two hundred and ten (210) dated Trinidad 16th March 1814 by Henry Murray (Registrar of Slaves). The certification stated their names, surnames, employment, colour (i.e. Negro or mulatto), age, stature, country of origin, tribal marks (if any) and relations (or otherwise). Included in this list were twenty-five (25) Negroes brought from the Endeavour Estate, Mustique Island and attached to the Camden Estate.

Sources

  1. http://www.nalis.gov.tt/Research/SubjectGuide/LandSlaveDeeds/tabid/191/Default.aspx?PageContentMode=1 [accessed 03/12/2013].

Estate Information (7)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
 

R. Purcell for Camden in Couva, a sugar plantation owned by Wm. Lushington Esq. his heirs or assignees in possession of R. Purcell as sequestrator and receiver thereof for the time being.

 
T71/501 80-88
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William S Pemberton, manager, for Messrs. Frazer Stuart and Lushington [increase by births].

 
T 71/508 207 v - 208
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William S Pemberton, manager, for Messrs. Alexander Frazer and Doctor Stewart [increase by births and 4 purchases].

 
T 71/511 364 v - 365
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Thatcher, attorney, for Alexander Fraser, owner, late the property of Fraser and Stewart [increase by births].

 
T 71/513 344 v - 345
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Alexander Munro attorney owned by Alexander Fraser Esq.

 
T71/515 2043-2044
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Bell, manager and attorney, for Alexander Fraser, owner [increase by births].

 
T 71/517 289 v - 290
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] Camden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Bell, manager and attorney, for Alexander Fraser, owner [increase by births].

 
T 71/519 183 v - 184