Letterkenny

Estate Details


Associated People (1)

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 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner

Notes

Berbice - not yet traced in the compensation records


Estate Information (2)

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1811
[Name] Letterkenny  
 

The Letterkenny estate of Murdoch Dallas was announced 26/01/1812 to be placed for sale in December 1812 under a petition of Douglas, Reid an Co. 'inhabitants of this colony' 10/11/1811. It was still shown as his in the 1817 Slave Register.

 
London Gazette 16609 02/06/1812 p. 1076
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot) 40(F) 51(M)  
[Name] Letterkenny  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Letter Kenney [sic] situate on the Corentyne coast of Berbice the property of the late Murdoh [sic] Dallas. This return made by John Cameron testamentary executor.

 
T71/437 94-95