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Beausejour Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (16)

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
Alexander George Milne junior
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
William Bartlet [Bartlett]
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
Crawford Davison Kerr
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Previous owner
Patrick Bartlet
Trustee
James William Freshfield junior
Trustee
James William Freshfield
1822 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Alexander George Milne senior
1830 [SY] - → Annuitant
Mary Bartlet (née Leslie)
1830 [SY] - 1844 [EY] → Annuitant
Ann Bartlet (née Span)
1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Owner
John Grant of Carriacou and England

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.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
George McLean
1817 [EA] - 1830 [EY] → Joint owner
Patrick Bartlet
1817 [EA] - 1822 [EY] → Joint owner
Dorothea Milne was Span (née Munro)
1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Dorothea Milne was Span (née Munro)
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
John Dallas
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
George McLean

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 958A & B (Beausejour Estate)
£9,025 8S 4D

Notes

Carriacou.

Estate Information (8)

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1790
[Number of enslaved people] 254(Tot)  
[Name] BeauStjour [sic]  
[Size] 503  
[Crop] Cotton (56,000 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.

1797
[Number of enslaved people] 281(Tot)  
[Name] Beausejour  
[Size] 505  
[Crop] Cotton 50,000 pounds  
 

Beausejour, a 'capital cotton estate', was advertised to be auctioned by Skinner, Dyke and Skinner on 01/11/1797 in London. In good season production was asserted to be 80,000 pounds. Details at Messrs Winter, Kay [sic] and Maynards, Swithin's Lane as well as Lloyd's Coffee House (the place of sale) and at Skinner, Dyke and Skinner.

 
London Gazette 14045 12 September 1797 p. 887
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot)  
[Name] Beausejour Estate  
 

In lawful possession of Geo. McLean attorney to Pat Bartlet and Dorothea Span.

 
T71/267 187-193
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot) 144(F) 188(M)  
[Name] Beausejour Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Dallas as Attorney or Agent for Patrick Bartlet and Dorothea Span Milne.

 
T71/285 277-278
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 339(Tot) 147(F) 192(M)  
[Name] Beausejour Estate  
 

Belonging to Patrick Bartlet and Dorothea Milne in the possession of Geo. McLean their attorney.

 
T71/299 319-320
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 336(Tot) 147(F) 189(M)  
[Name] Beausejour Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George McLean as Attorney to Patrick Bartlet and Dorothea Milne.

 
T71/311 25-26
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 342(Tot) 144(F) 198(M)  
[Name] Beausejour Estate  
 

The property of Dorothea Span Milne and in the possession of George McLean her attorney.

 
T71/317 43-44
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 436(Tot) 145(F) 201(M)  
[Name] Beausejour  
 

Carriacou. Property of Alex George Milne junior, William Bartlet and Crawford D. Kerr trustees, appointed under the last will and testament of the late Patrick Bartlet and in the possession of George McLean their attorney.

 
T71/328 29-40