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Providence and Sage Pond

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
- 1834 [LA] → Owner
James Johnstone
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Bertram Pieter Lespinasse
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
James Johnstone

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 630 (Providence and Sage Pond)
£32,490 5S 2D

Estate Information (9)

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1798
[Name] Providence  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Providence, shown as plantation no. 13 under the subheading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire P.H. Koppiers, 500 carreaux, S[ugar]. The entry is directly followed by two other estates owned by P.H. Koppiers, Belvedere, 250 carreaux, S[ugar] and Ramsburg, 250 carreaux, K [coffee].

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1798
[Name] Sage Pont [sic]  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Sage Pont [sic], shown as plantation no. 1 under the subheading 'Au nord' [implicitly 'Au Canal no. III au nord', given the prior subheading was 'Au canal no. III au sud'], Erve Lespinasse, 250 carreaux, K [coffee].

 
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] 93(Tot) 41(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Sage Pond  
 

N. M. Manget atty of B.P.and P. Lespinasse

 
T71/397 S4 1415
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 545(Tot) 243(F) 302(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

James Johnstone atty to heirs of P.H. Koppiers.

 
T71/397 P2 1800
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 514(Tot) 239(F) 275(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Thomas Blake attorney

 
T71/413 P 727
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 500(Tot) 229(F) 271(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

In lawful possession of James Johnstone (who also signed)

 
T71/414 174-186
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot) 43(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Sage Pont [sic]  
 

Returned by Stephen Cramer, in lawful possession of B.P. and P Lespinasse and J.J.and P Voute. The Register erroneously gives 91 enslaved people as the total (hence 48 M 43F): the 1823 registration had been 93, with seven births and one purchase (probably William, a carpenter aged 29 'ruptured').

 
T71/4177 1459-1461
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 74(F) 104(M)  
[Name] Sage Pond  
 

Belonging to Plantation Sage Pond, in lawful possession of James Johnstone. Unusually, this entry's gender break-down of the enslaved population is given in the form: 'Sixty males and twenty-one Females Africans. Forty-four males and fifty three females Creoles.'

 
T71/430 486-491
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 448(Tot) 217(F) 231(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Belonging to Plantation Providence, in the lawful possession of James Johnstone [who signed himself]. As with his other entry in 1832, the gender breakdown of the enslaved people took the form: '73 males and 57 females Africans; 158 males and 160 females Creoles.'

 
T71/430 491-501