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Bachelors Adventure and Enterprise

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
John Hopkinson
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
John Hopkinson

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 568A&B (Bachelors Adventure and Enterprise)
£36,270 18S 2D
British Guiana 1111 (Bachelors Adventure & Enterprise)
£1,548 5S 11D

Estate Information (6)

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1798
[Name] Bachelors Adventure  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Bachelors Adventure, shown as plantation no. 28 under the sub-heading' De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire B. & J. Hopkinson, 500 carreaux, 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] Enterprize [sic]  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Enterprize [sic], shown as plantation no.30 under the sub-heading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire B. & J. Hopkinson, 500 carreaux, C[oton]

 
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] 619(Tot) 270(F) 349(M)  
[Name] Bachelors Adventure & Enterprise  
 

Registered by John Grant atty of J. Hopkinson (prop.)

 
T71/397 B6 2342
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 671(Tot) 307(F) 364(M)  
[Name] Bachelor's Adventure and Enterprise  
 

John Grant executor.

 
T71/413 B2
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 668(Tot) 311(F) 357(M)  
[Name] Bachelors Adventure  
 

Property of the heirs of the late John Hopkinson and in the lawful possession of John Grant and William Chichester executors

 
T71/415 818-833
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 699(Tot) 338(F) 361(M)  
[Name] Bachelor's Adventure and Enterprise  
 

Belonging to Pln Bachelor's Adventure and Enterprise in lawful possession of the heirs of the late John Hopkinson by John Grant executor

 
T71/429 261-277