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Grand Ance Estate

Grenada | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (16)

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
1817 [EA] - → Other
John Mann
1817 [EA] - → Other
John Blacket or Blackett
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
Matthew Davies
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Lessee (Enslaved)
Matthew Davies
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
John Cruickshank
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
William Stuart
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Stronach
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Thomson Hankey

An indenture of 04/11/1829 whereby J & A Smith of Glasgow took on the mortgage debt of William Stuart to Thomson and John Alexander Hankey of London gave the background in which by indentures of 01 and 02/09/1826 William Stuart and his wife Helen had mortgaged estates including Grand Ance and Mount Hardman (as well as Prospect and Hog Island) and the enslaved people attached to them and 'also all bulls, cows and other cattle, live and dead stock....' to Thomson Hankey and John Alexander Hankey for £18,500. In 1827 additional security was added including Helen Stuart's right to dower and the Morne Delice estate and the enslaved people attached to it. Under the 1829 deed, J&A Smith repaid the Hankey's mortgage.

1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Alexander Hankey
1829 [EA] - → Lessee
George Cruickshank
1829 [EA] - → Lessee
Robert Stronach
1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
James Smith of Jordanhill
1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Archibald Smith
1829 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Robert McCunn
1832 [EA] - → Joint owner
George Cruickshank
1832 [EA] - → Joint owner
Robert Stronach

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 453 (Grand Ance Estate)
£3,727 9S 5D

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Ance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Matthew Davies as Manager under an Order of the Court of Chancery in Great Britain and worked upon Grand Ance Estate.

 
T71/265 179-181
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Ance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Matthew Davies as Renter from John Blacket and John Mann and worked upon Grand Ance Estate.

 
T71/265 182-183
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Ance  
[Size] 1239  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

In 1817 the Grand Ance cotton estate with 154 enslaved people was advertised for sale in London arising from the Chancery suits of Baillie v Lushington and Baillie v Blackett

 
London Gazette 17273 2 August 1817 p. 1692
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot) 98(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Grandance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Cruickshank as Attorney of William Stuart.

 
T71/273 371-373
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 75(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Grand Ance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert Stronach as Attorney to William Stuart, the Proprietor.

 
T71/286 336-337
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot) 73(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Grand Ance Estate  
 

Belonging and attached to Grand Ance Estate in the lawful possession of Robert Stronach attorney to William Stuart the proprietor.

 
T71/298 301-302
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 72(F) 58(M)  
[Name] Grandance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert Stronach and George Cruickshank as Renters.

 
T71/312 43-44
1829
[Name] Grand Ance  
 

In 1829 William Stuart mortgaged three Grenada estates (Mount Hardman, Morne Delice and Grande Ance) and 470 enslaved people upon them and upon two of his other estates in Grenada, Mount Moritz in St George and Diamond in St Mark. In 1834 the debt stood at £24,000.

 
Stephen Mullen, 'A Glasgow-West India Merchant House', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 33.2 (2013) pp. 196-233,; pp. 208, 216-217.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 70(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Grandance Estate  
 

Belonging to Robert Stronach and George Cruickshank Proprietors.

 
T71/318 365-366