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Coldingen

British Guiana | Demerara

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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Spencer Mackay
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Creswell Spencer

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (4)

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1798
[Name] Coldingen  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Coldingen, shown as plantation no. 32 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire 'Keith' [sic], 500 carreaux, C[oton].

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 84(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Coldingen  
 

Registered by C. Spencer atty of S. Mackay proprietor

 
T71/397 C4 1173
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot) 99(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Coldingen  
 

H. Hatton in behalf of attorney being sick

 
T71/413 C1
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 38(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Coldingen  
 

Return by C. Spencer, attorney of S. Mackay

 
T71/414 40-44