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Foulis

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
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Porter
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Porter II

Sources

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] Foulis  
 

In 1798 Foulis was shown as plantation no. 26 under the sub-heading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', prorietaire Dr Munro, 500 carreaux [C]oton. This appears to correspond to the Foulis in Berbice know to have been owned by William Munro; however, a separate plantation Foulis in Demerara came to be owned by the Porter family who held other estates close by to the Foulis in Demerara in the 1798 list. It is conceivable that William Munro held estates of the same name in both Berbice and Demerara.

 
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] 143(Tot) 69(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Foulis  
 

C. Spencer registered 143 enslaved people on Foulis in Demerara as atty of John Laing and M. Ogle

 
T71/397 F2 1178
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 80(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Foulis  
 

In lawful possession of Thomas and Henry Porter Esq., Hubert Whitlock qq.

 
T71/414 238-242