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Plegt Anker

British Guiana | Berbice

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Wolfert Katz

Notes

Berbice - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (4)

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1794
[Name] t' Plegt Anker  
 

Plantagie t'Plegt Anker. Eigenaar C.S. Sander; Adminis. L.C. Abbensets; Directeur J. Dehn.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.11
1806
[Name] Plegt Anker  
[Size] 2000  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

The Plegt Anker coffee estate of 2000 Dutch Akkers was put up for auction in Amsterdam in 1806.

 
London Gazette 8 November 1806Issue:15973Page:1469
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot) 36(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Plegt Anker  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Plegt Anker situate in the River Berbice, the property of W. Katz [signed by W. Katz 24/12/1817]

 
T71/437 188
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 9(F) 12(M)  
[Name] Plegt Anker  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plant. Plegt Anker as the property of John Quarless as taken under sequestration by the undersigned [M. Daly] 05/06/1823. 22 + 1 - 2 = 21. John Quarless made a return immediately afterwards [T71/442 pp. 609-610] showing 26 enslaved people attached to Plegt Anker at the last registration, of whom he had since sold 23 to Isaac Farley and 2 to J.H. McKenzie, leaving him with 2 after the birth of Eliza, daughter of Accoba.

 
T71/442 607-608