UCL

Den Amstel

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
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Jan Jacob Bysterus Heemskerk

Possibly mortgagee-in-possession

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 696 (Den Amstel)
£5,357 7S 9D

Notes

The link between the 1817 registration and the compensation records has yet to be confirmed.

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot) 49(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Amstel  
 

J. J. L. Moliere registered 113 enslaved people in 1817 on Amstel Plantn. 'nomine uxoris'.

 
T71/397 A3 2781
1821
[Name] Dean Amstel  
 

In 1821, the coffee plantation Den Amstel situated on the West Coast of Demerara taken in execution in the suits of J.D. Haley noms. ux, and Charles Vincent and A. Barkey [sic] attorneys of J.J.B. Heemskerk of Amsterdam was advertised for a judicial sale in the following March (1822). London Gazette 17693 31/03/1821 p. 740.

 
London Gazette 17693 31/03/1821 p. 740.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot) 47(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Den Amstel  
 

T. Frankland curator

 
T71/413 D1
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot) 52(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Den Amstel  
 

In lawful possession of Thomas Frankland and Jno Craig curators

 
T71/414 252-255
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 104(Tot) 52(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Den Amstel  
 

Belonging to Den Amstel, in lawful possession of Michael M'Turk and A. Maclae qq. [signed by Michael M'Turk].

 
T71/431 1156-1158