UCL

Pln Paradise

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1815 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Porter II
- 1815 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Porter I
1815 [SY] - → Joint owner
Henry Porter
1815 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Joint owner
William Porter

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 570 (Pln Paradise)
£19,295 8S 0D

Estate Information (4)

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1798
[Name] Paradize [sic]  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Paradize [sic], shown as plantation no. 27 under the sub-heading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire Thomas Porter, 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] 282(Tot) 126(F) 156(M)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Hugh Hughes atty of T. H. & W. Porter prop.

 
T71/397 P1 904
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 271(Tot) 126(F) 145(M)  
[Name] Pln Paradise  
 

Thomas and Henry Porter Esq., Devon, D. McArthur qq.

 
T71/414 78-84
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 375(Tot) 190(F) 185(M)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Belonging to Pln Paradise in lawful possession of Thomas Porter [signed Hubert Whitlock qq].

 
T71/429 212-221