Union

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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
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2. Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.

1832 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Stephen Mullen showed George Paterson transferring a large mortgage to J&A Smith in 1832 and making them his consignees, Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 161-2. Paterson claimed and was awarded the slave compensation for his estates, implying he had kept his mortgage current.


Associated Claims (1)

£3,238 19S 2D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 21 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 19 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Union. By 1824 Union had also absorbed Estates 13 and 14 from Paterson's map of 1780 - see JA18287 ('Unknown (Estate 15)') and JA18285 ('Lot 14, St Patrick').


Estate Information (9)

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1763
[Name] Lot 21  
[Size] 90  
[Crop] coffee  
 

In 1763, the estate was 90.2 acres, of which 60 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee. Proprietor given as Closier.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1782
[Name] Lot 21  
[Size] 289  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 289 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. Proprietor given as Closier.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to George Paterson and worked upon the Union Estate.

 
T71/265 427-429
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot) 52(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Geo Paterson, position not recorded.

 
T71/274 172
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot) 52(F) 68(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Paterson as Proprietor.

 
T71/285 84
1824
[Name] Union  
[Size] 289  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 19 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 21 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 289 acres, proprietor George Patterson. By 1824 this estate had absorbed Estates 13 and 14 on Gavin Smith's map of 1801 which corresponds to Lot 14 and part of Lot 15 on Patterson's map of 1780.

 
'Reference to the plan of the Island of Grenada by Gavin Smith showing the names of all the different estates; the proprietors' names (corrected up to 1824); the species of produce made; and the quantity of land belonging to each' (London, 1882) p. 7
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot) 55(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

In possession of Geo Paterson proprietor.

 
T71/299 87
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 123(Tot) 58(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Paterson jnr as Attorney to George Paterson.

 
T71/311 204-205
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 49(F) 59(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to Geo. Paterson proprietor of Union Estate.

 
T71/317 175