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T'Huys de Coverden

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] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Jonas Fileen
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
Jonas Fileen

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] t'Huis te Coeverden [sic]  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

t'Huis de Coeverden [sic], plantation nos. 41, 42 and 43 under the subheading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire Jonas Fileen, 250, 500 and 1000 carreaux respectively, all K [coffee]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' http://dpc.uba.uva.nl
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot) 188(F) 93(M)  
[Name] T'Huys de Coverden  
 

Jonas Fileen proprietor

 
T71/397 T4 2880
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 89(F) 88(M)  
[Name] Huis de Coverden  
 

In lawful possession of H.J. Tulchan, W.J. Armstrong and C. Wilday as attorneys of the heirs of Jonas Fileen [by W.J. Armstrong qq.]

 
T71/418 2184-2189