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New Hope

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
Alexander Macrae senior
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Anthony Osborn
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Not known
Charles Horsfall

In lawful possession of Charles Horsfall by an attorney

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 645 (New Hope)
£5,789 17S 5D

Notes

Tentative connection of New Hope from 1817 Demerara Slave Register and New Hope of compensation records

Estate Information (4)

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1798
[Name] New Hope  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

New Hope, shown as plantation no. 26 under the subheading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire A. MacRae, 500 carreaux, S[ugar]

NB the link between this evolution and the Slave Registers 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] 143(Tot) 54(F) 89(M)  
[Name] New Hope  
 

An. Osborne proprietor

 
T71/397 N2 2024
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot) 63(F) 90(M)  
[Name] New Hope  
 

In lawful possession of Anthony Osborn

 
T71/414 425-429
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 46(F) 56(M)  
[Name] New Hope  
 

Belonging to Pln New Hope in lawful possession of Charles Horsfall by John McLean attorney

 
T71/430 418-420