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Associated People (5)

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

1765 [SY] - 1772 [LA] → Owner

Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bart.

When Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bt. purchased Epsom Pen for £216 in 1765 it was an estate of 77 acres. Unfortunately the records do not give an indication as to how many enslaved people worked on the estate when Grant first purchased it. When Grant died his 1772 probate inventory gave details that the number of enslaved on the estate was 22 and the value of the estate was £2,027. David Hancock has noted that this valuation probably did not include the value of the land.

1773 [EA] - 1779 [LA] → Previous owner

Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Bart.

1817 [EA] - → Owner

Sir Alexander Grant, 7th Bart.

1818 Jamaica Almanac was based on the givings in from the 1817 March Quarter hence the earlier evolution date.

1817 [EA] - → Attorney

Francis Graham

Francis Graham was the attorney for Sir Alexander Grant, 7th Bt. and such filed the return on behalf of Grant for the 1817 St. Catherine slave register.

1830 [EA] - → Owner

Sir Alexander Cray Grant 8th Bart.

1831 Jamaica Almanac was based on the givings in from the 1830 March Quarter hence the earlier evolution date.

Notes

Epsom was a livestock and subsistence estate that supplied other sugar works.

Sources

David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785 , (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.

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David Hancock, Citizens of the world: London merchants and the integration of the British Atlantic community, 1735-1785, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995), p.410.

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