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Plantn Vryheids Lust and Sheet Anchor

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
1798 [EA] - 1798 [LA] → Owner
Ralph Skelton

Owner of Sheet Anchor only in 1798

1798 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Hendrik van Cooten
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Hendrik van Cooten

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 552 (Plantn Vreyheids Lust and Sheet Anchor)
£14,638 18S 6D

Estate Information (5)

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1798
[Name] Sheet Ancher [sic]  
 

Sheet Ancher [sic] shown as plantation no. 56 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire R. Skelton, no area shown, no crop shown.

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1798
[Name] Vryheid's Lust  
 

Vryheids' Lust, shown as plantation no. 57 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire H. van Cooten, no area shown, no crop shown.

 
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] 218(Tot) 99(F) 119(M)  
[Name] Vryheid's Lust and Sheet Anchor  
 

H. van Cooten proprietor

 
T71/397 V2 1066
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot) 104(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Vryheids Lust  
 

In lawful possession of the heirs of H. van Corten [sp?] by L.V. Corten executor

 
T71/419 2379-2385
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot) 133(F) 166(M)  
[Name] Vryheids Lust  
 

Belonging to Pln Vryheid's Lust and Sheet Anchor in the lawful possession of the heirs of the late Hendrick van Cooten [by Jno L.C . Playter].

 
T71/429 397-404