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Dankbaarheid

British Guiana | Berbice

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
1818 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Joint owner
Aeneas Barkly

One of the four estates purchased from the Berbice Association in 1818 by Aeneas Barkly, Henry Davidson and John Cameron and D.C. Cameron. Local secondary sources suggest St Jan and Dankbaarheid were combined to form Highbury, but Dankbaarheid appears to have continued at least until 1834.

1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Garlick or Garlich Prass

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 124 (Dankbaarheid)
£8,800 7S 3D

Estate Information (5)

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1794
[Name] Dankbaarheyd  
 

Plantagie Dankbaarheyd. Eigenaar [owner] Joh. van den Broek; Adminis. Joh. van den Broek.

NB p. 7 appears to show a sugar plantation also called Dankbaarheid apparently owned by the 'Lords', which might correspond to the Amsterdam association referred to in the Slave Registers for Dankbaarheid.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.11
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot) 93(F) 114(M)  
[Name] Dankbaarheid  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln de Dankbaarheid situate on the east bank of the River Berbice, the property of the Berbice Association of Amsterdam by Henrik Staal one of their agents 22/12/1817.

 
T71/437 28-29
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] Dankbaarheid  
 

Return of slaves the property of A. Krieger and G. Praas and now attached to Pln Dankbaarheid 21 + 64 (37m 37f) - 12 (5m 7f) = 73.

 
T71/442 455-458
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] Dankbaarheid  
 

Property of A. Krieger and G. Praas, return by G. Praas. G. Praas also registered with no estate name and as the property of Krieger and Praas an additional 38 enslaved people purchased from several different sellers since 1825, and one death, that of Phillida aged 51 of palsy, 'wrinkled' 'thin' [T71/443 pp. 81-82].

 
T71/443 79-80
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot)  
[Name] Dankbaarheid  
 

Property of A. Krieger and G. Praas, and attached to Pln Dankbaarheid, return by G. Praas. G. Praas also registered with no estate name and as the property of Krieger and Praas an additional 84 enslaved people (up from 37, the people purchased from several different sellers including Pln Cruisburg and Broers Lust since 1828, pp. 301-302).

 
T71/444 307-308