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Rome

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
- 1814 [LA] → Owner
Robert Augustus Hyndman I
1798 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Owner
Anthony Meertens
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Hugh Hyndman

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 627 (Rome)
£17,386 9S 10D

Estate Information (3)

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1798
[Name] Rome  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Rome, shown as plantation no. 10 under the heading 'A la Cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire A. Meertens, 500 carreaux, K [coffee].

NB the association of this evolution with the Hyndman family's Rome estate remains tentative.

 
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] 489(Tot) 229(F) 260(M)  
[Name] Rome  
 

Hugh Hyndman exor to est. of R.A. Hyndman

 
T71/397 R3 2402
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 402(Tot) 194(F) 208(M)  
[Name] Rome  
 

In the lawful possession of H. Hyndman and the other executors of R.A. Hyndman decd. by R.M. Jones qq.

 
T71/416 1371-1380