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Grenada | St John

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Associated People (2)

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
- 1770 [EY] → Owner
William Hyndman of Nevis
1770 [SY] - 1782 [LA] → Owner
William Hyndman

Assumed to be the Hyndman identified as owner in 1780 based on his father's will of 1770.

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier de l'Ance Goyave and the parish of St. John , identified as lot 46 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780). Not yet identified in the slave registers or compensation records.

Estate Information (3)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 74  
[Crop] coffee and savannah  
 

In 1763, the estate was 73.5 acres, of which 45 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee with grassland too. Proprietor given as Foussat.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1770
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In his will proved in 1770, William Hyndman of Nevis asked his executors to carry on and perfect the settlement of 'my estate in Grenada.' His residuary legatee was his son William.

 
PROB 11/960/300
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 235  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 235 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. Proprietor given as ____ Hyndman, Esq.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e