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Garden of Eden

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
Thomas Cuming the elder
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
C. Frymersum

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 647 (Garden of Eden)
£10,109 16S 0D

Estate Information (4)

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1798
[Name] Garden of Eden  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Garden of Eden, shown as plantations nos. 30 and 31 under the subheading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire Ths. Cuming, 500 and 250 carreaux respectively, both S[ugar].

 
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] 246(Tot) 105(F) 141(M)  
[Name] Garden of Eden  
 

N.M. Manget registered 246 enslaved people as atty of C. Frymersum & Son prop.

 
T71/397 G3 1407
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 225(Tot) 107(F) 118(M)  
[Name] Garden of Eden  
 

In lawful possession of C. Frymersum & Son of Amsterdam by A.C. Luthers their attorney

 
T71/419 2334-2339
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot) 107(F) 103(M)  
[Name] Garden of Eden  
 

Belonging to Pln Garden of Eden in lawful possession of C. Frymersum & Son of Amsterdam by N.M. Manget and A.C. Luthers their attorneys.

 
T71/430 452-457