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Mindenburg

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
- 1805 [EY] → Owner
William Irish Morson

The will of William Irish Morson made in 1803 showed him having purchased the Mindenburg estate and the enslaved Africans attached to it from J.S. Masse and Mrs A.G. Melkin [?].

1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Stephen Cramer the elder

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] Mindenburg  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Mindenburg, shown as plantation no. 13 under the subheading 'A la cote occidental de Demerarie', proprietaire Meyer, 400 carreaux, K [coffee]

 
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] 137(Tot) 61(F) 76(M)  
[Name] Mindenburg  
 

J.R. Brandt sequestrator

 
T71/397 M5 1620
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 56(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Mindenburg  
 

In lawful possession of Stephen Cramer

 
T71/4177 1462-1465