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Woodlands

British Guiana | Berbice

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1818 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Joint owner
John Henry Rawlins
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
John Henry Rawlins

Notes

Berbice - apparently separate from 'Woodlands & L'amitie', and not yet traced in the slave compensation records

Estate Information (4)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot) 19(F) 34(M)  
[Name] Woodlands  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Woodlands on the West Coast the property of Elizabeth Phillips and John Rawlins, this return made by Maxwell Ward attorney 29/12/1817.

 
T71/437 287-288
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot)  
[Name] Woodlands  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Woodlands No. 10 west coast the property of J.H. Rawlins and E. Philips. 58 + 3 (1m 2f) - 0 = 61

 
T71/442 619-620
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] Woodlands  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Woodlands, part of Lot no.10, west coast, the property of the estate of J.A. [H?] Rawlins decd. and E. Philips, return by J.A. Edwards, exor of J.A. [H?] Rawlins deceased.

 
T71/443 205-206
1831
[Name] Woodlands  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Woodlands, part of Lot no.10, west coast, the property of the estate of J.A. [H?] Rawlins decd. and E. A. Philips, return by J.A. Edwards, for himself and H.R. [?] Magee delib exors to will of Rawlins. All the enslaved people had been sold, with several different purchasers identified.

 
T71/444 491-494