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Drill

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1801 [EY] → Joint owner
Benjamin Hopkinson the elder
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
James Smith of Gower Street
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
John Thomas Hopkinson

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the slave compensation records

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot) 73(F) 115(M)  
[Name] Drill  
 

Registered by Wm Chichester 'atty of exors of J. Smith.'

 
T71/397 D1 264
1823
[Name] Drill  
 

W. Chichester executor

 
T71/413 D2
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 199(Tot) 82(F) 117(M)  
[Name] Drill  
 

In lawful possession of John T. Hopkinson and Robert Lang exr of James Smith by his [sic] attorney William Chichester

 
T71/415 536-541
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 40(F) 59(M)  
[Name] Drill  
 

Belonging to Pln Drill in lawful possession of John Thomas Hopkinson by B.J. Hopkinson qq.

 
T71/429 123-125