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Spring Garden

British Guiana | Berbice

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1818 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Joint owner
Hector Ross of Berbice

Shown as owner of 21 enslaved people on the estate

1818 [EA] - 1818 [LA] → Joint owner
Donald Ross senior

Shown as owner of 22 enslaved people on the estate

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Hector Ross of Berbice
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
Hector Ross of Berbice

Estate Information (4)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 21(Tot) 3(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
 

Return of slaves jobbing on the Spring Garden estate situated on the west bank of Corrantine River the property of Hector Ross manager of the said estate. This return made by himself 16/12/1817.

NB it is clear that this entry does not refer to the Spring Garden estate owned by Charles Benjamin in the 1830s.

 
T71/437 309
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 22(Tot) 4(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
 

Return of slaves attached to Spring Garden situate on the west bank of the Corantyne River the property of Donald Ross. This return made by himself 22/12/1817.

NB it is clear that this entry does not refer to the Spring Garden estate owned by Charles Benjamin in the 1830s.

 
T71/437 310
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
[Name] Spring Garden  
 

Return of slaves the property of Hector Ross attached to Plantation Spring Garden. 107 + 1 (1m) - 14 (9m 5f) = 94

 
T71/442 617-618
1828
[Name] Spring Garden  
 

Return of slaves formerly attached to Pln Spring Garden and sold by the curators of the estate of Hector Ross deceased at Public Vendue 20/09/1827. There were several buyers but most prominently Charles Kyte.

 
T71/443 201-204