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Now or Never

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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] → Joint owner
William Dodgson

The co-owner described in 'J. Matthews and Dodgson' has been inferred to be William Dodgson of Ulverstone given given that the latter's widow succeeded to the estate.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Joseph Thibou Mathews

Inferred to be the J. Matthews of J. Matthews & Dodgson in the 1817 Slave Register

1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Martina Esther Dodgson

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records, but it appears that the enslaved people were moved to Cumings Lodge and appear in the compensation records under British Guiana no. 849 (which is shown as Cumings Lodge).

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] Now or Never  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Plantation No. 8 under the sub-heading 'De Mahaicouini a Mahaica' was Now or Never proprietaire wed. [widow] Mathews, 250 Carreaux C[oton].

 
Carte Generale...Liste des Habitations (1798) https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 47(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Now or Never  
 

Robert Johnstone atty of J. Matthews & Dodgson

 
T71/397 N1 662
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot) 39(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Now or Never  
 

In lawful possession of Mrs M.E. Dodgson by her attorney William Chichester

 
T71/415 541-543