John Brown or Browne merchant of Dublin

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Dublin merchant, almost certainly the partner of Brook[e] Taylor Ottley (q.v.). John Brown of Dublin was party to Articles of Agreement of 30/01/1804 with Robert Browne of St Vincent. The Articles rehearsed that Robert Browne was possessed of 'seventy negroes or slaves' and of a tract of land of 350 acres in the Charaib country granted to him in 1802, and that John Brown had agreed to advance £4000 to put the land into cultivation and then a further £2000 when the estate had shipped him 150 hogsheads of sugar, with Robert Browne agreeing to repay the total from six years of consigning at least 150 hogsheads to John Brown. The land in the mortgage was almost certainly later part of the Mount Bentinck estate.

Sources

Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18 pp. 174-8. The document includes a schedule of named enslaved people.

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Absentee?

British/Irish

Associated Estates (1)

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

1804 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Mount Bentinck [ St Vincent ]

John Brown of Dublin was party to Articles of Agreement of 30/01/1804 with Robert Browne of St Vincent. The Articles rehearsed that Robert Browne was possessed of 'seventy negroes or slaves' and of a tract of land of 350 acres in the Charaib country granted to him in 1802, and that John Brown had agreed to advance £4000 to put the land into cultivation and then a further £2000 when the estate had shipped him 150 hogsheads of sugar, with Robert Browne agreeing to repay the total from six years of consigning at least 150 hogsheads to John Brown. The land in the mortgage was almost certainly later part of the Mount Bentinck estate.

Deed Book 1804, British Library, EAP688/1/1/18, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-18 pp. 174-8. The document includes a schedule of named enslaved people.