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La Petite Fortune & Zelden Rust

British Guiana | Demerara

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
Alexander Simpson

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the slave compensation records

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] La Petite Fortune  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

La Petite Fortune, shown as plantation no. 53 under the heading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire 'Mc Cragh' [sic], no area shown, C[oton]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1798
[Name] Zelden Rust  
 

Zelden Rust, shown as plantation no. 54.subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire 'J. Bastaanze. Mz', no area or crop shown.

 
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] 166(Tot) 70(F) 96(M)  
[Name] La Petite Fortune & Zelden Rust  
 

Alex. Simpson proprietor

 
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