UCL

Prospect Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
- 1793 [EY] → Joint owner
John Robertson of Plantation

1793, 7 October, Indenture between William ROBERTSON, merchant, Glasgow, John ROBERTSON, Merchant, wife Elizabeth, Glasgow, Andrew ROBERTSON, merchant, wife Ramsey, Glasgow, & John BELL Carriacou. Prospect Estate of 150 acres on Carriacou, property & slaves.

1793 [SY] - → Owner
John Bell
- 1793 [EY] → Joint owner
William Robertson of Glasgow

1793, 7 October, Indenture between William ROBERTSON, merchant, Glasgow, John ROBERTSON, Merchant, wife Elizabeth, Glasgow, Andrew ROBERTSON, merchant, wife Ramsey, Glasgow, & John BELL Carriacou. Prospect Estate of 150 acres on Carriacou, property & slaves.

- 1793 [EY] → Joint owner
Andrew Robertson of Glasgow
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
John Bell
1817 [EA] - → Attorney
James Wilson
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
James Wilson
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Davis

Estate Information (6)

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1790
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect  
[Size] 131  
[Crop] Cotton (41,000 pounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 5. Messrs Robertson were given as the owner, James McCaul as manager.

1793
[Name] Prospect Estate  
[Size] 150  
 

1793, 7 October, Indenture between William ROBERTSON, merchant, Glasgow, John ROBERTSON, Merchant, wife Elizabeth, Glasgow, Andrew ROBERTSON, merchant, wife Ramsey, Glasgow, & John BELL Carriacou. Prospect Estate of 150 acres on Carriacou, property & slaves.

Sourced to the Grenada Land Registry Files, 793 50 John BELL H4 F378, https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/caribbean@rootsweb.com/thread/11871556/ [accessed 25/04/2020]

 
https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/caribbean@rootsweb.com/thread/11871556/
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Prospect Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of James Wilson as attorney for John Bell deceased.

 
T71/267 273-274
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot) 29(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Prospect Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of James Wilson as Attorney for the Heirs of John Bell decd.

 
T71/285 256
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 56(Tot) 30(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Prospect Estate  
 

In possession of Thomas Davies as proprietor and attorney.

 
T71/299 306-307
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 61(Tot) 34(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Prospect Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas Davis as Proprietor and Attorney. The Slave Register entry in fact shows the sale of 62 enslaved people from Prospect to Hon. Andrew Houston, who moved them from Carriacou to two estates elsewhere on Grenada, Diamond and Tivoli.

 
T71/311 64-66