Alexander Simpson

Resident local planter, awarded compensation with co-owner William Shand of Liverpool (q.v.) for the Ogle and Montrose plantations in British Guiana, where in addition he was joint sequestrator on another large estate and probably the Alexander Simpson who was co-curator of D.T. Malloney on two further awards there.

1. Died c.1837, when William Shand was his executor. Referred to by Da Costa as an indebted local planter on Montrose.

T71/885 British Guiana nos. 547 (Ogle) and 553 (Montrose); T71/885 no. 552 (sequestrator); T71/885 British Guiana no. 544 and T71/886 British Guiana no. 1333 for claims as co-curator of D.T. Malloney.

1. London Gazette, Issue 19562, 24/11/1837, p. 3099 (notice to creditors); Emilia Viotti da Costa, Crowns of glory, tears of blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994) p. 204.