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Haslenton

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
- 1811 [EY] → Owner
John William Bovell
1801 [SY] - 1822 [EY] → Annuitant
Martha Nihell
1796 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
Michael Nihell of Barbados

In his will, made in 1796 and proved in 1801, Michael Nihell said he was seized in fee simple of and in Haslington [sic] in Demerara (as well as the John in Demerara and Mount Edge in Barbados).

1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Roach Bovell

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 571 (Haslenton)
£492 16S 1D

Estate Information (4)

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1798
[Name] Haslenton  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Haslenton, shown as plantation no. 23 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire M. Nihil, 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] 206(Tot) 90(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Haslenton  
 

Tho. F. Burrowes registered 206 enslaved people as atty to exors to est. of Bovell

 
T71/397 H4 2041
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot) 102(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Haslenton  
 

In the lawful possession of R.M. Jones qq.

 
T71/418 2205-2209
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 15(Tot)  
[Name] Haslenton  
 

Belonging to Pln Haslenton in lawful possession of J.R.Bovel [sic] signed J.R. Bovell

 
T71/429 393