UCL

Pln Welgelegen

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
- 1810 [EY] → Owner
Paul Benfield
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Joint owner
Lambert Blair
1818 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Other
John Forbes of Turnbull, Forbes

The enslaved people on the estate were registered to the assignees of Turnbull, Forbes [the bankrupt London merchants]

1818 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Other
John Turnbull of Turnbull, Forbes

The enslaved people on the estate were registered to the assignees of Turnbull, Forbes [the bankrupt London merchants]

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 493 (Pln Welgelegen)
£7,619 4S 4D

Estate Information (5)

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1794
[Name] Welgeleegen [sic]  
 

Plantagie Welgeleegen [sic]. Eigenaars [owners] Lambert Blair en comp; Adminis. Lambert Blair en comp; Directeur P. van Asselt. The entry that followed was Plantagie Nieuw Welgeleb, with the same ownership, administration and management.

 
Naam-Lyst der Bestierders, officieren, bediendens en plantagien op de colonie de Berbice (Amsterdam, 1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p. 12
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 94(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Welgelegen  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Welgelegen situate on the East Bank of the River Berbice being one of the properties designated Benfield's estates and now in the hands of assignees of the Bankrupt estate of Turnbull,Forbes & Co., return made by William Kewley and Andrew Melville, attornies of the assignees 30/09/1817 [dated 30/12/1817 alongside signatures].

 
T71/437 46-47
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
[Name] Welgelegen  
 

Return of slaves the property of Turnbull Forbes & Co. and attached to Plant. Welgelegen, return made by William Campbell. 180 + 22 (10m 12f) - 31 (13m 18f) = 171.

 
T71/442 731-734
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Welgelegen  
 

Return of slaves the property of Turnbull Forbes & Co and attached to Pln Welgelegen, one of the plantations denominated Benfield estates, by William Kewley attorney to the assignees.

 
T71/443 289-292
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Welgelegen  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Welgelegen one of Benfield's estates now in the hands of the surviving assignee of the estate of Turnbull Forbes & Co. by David Melville their attorney.

 
T71/444 674-677