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William Crosling

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Resident slave-owner on Trinidad, proprietor in 1813 of the Accono estate and the enslaved people attached to it. Crosling, who was dead by 1819, had been the agent and possibly partner of Col. Thomas Powell in the latter's effort to establish cocoa plantations on Trinidad c. 1803.


Sources

Herefordshire Local Archives, F94 /IV/52 et seq. Papers of Col. Thomas Powell.

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
1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Owner
Accono [ Trinidad | Maracas ]