Thomas Bassell Winter

Profile & Legacies Summary

1805 - 1875

Biography

Thomas Bassell Winter, son of Nathaniel Winter (q.v.), is shown by Randy M. Browne as arriving at Deutichem in 1829, his arrival bringing into the open a conflict that had existed for a decade between the manager Boas and an enslaved man named January. Although described by Browne as the owner, Winter in fact served as attorney in Berbice for the representatives of the estate of Nathaniel Winter (of which he was a beneficiary), John Innes (q.v.) and James Evan Baillie (q.v.). Thomas Bassell Winter was later in Canada and then settled in New Zealand, where he died in 1875.

Sources

Randy M. Browne, The Driver's Story (2024) pp. 95-111; Berbice Royal Gazette, and New Amsterdam Advertiser ( January 20, 1830).

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

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

1824 [SY] - → Heir

Deutichem [ British Guiana ]

Thomas Bassell Winter travelled to Deutichem to run it several years after his father's death. He registered the enslaved people on behalf of Winter, Innes & Baillie in 1834.