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Covent Garden

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1772 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Osborn
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Anthony Osborn
1823 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
John Tulloh Osborn
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
John Osborn
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
John Osborn

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 639A, B&C (Covent Garden)
£3,895 0S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1798
[Name] Covent Garden  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Covent Garden, shown as plantation no. 20 under the subheading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire Boedel [inventory/probate] Osborn, 250 carreaux, K [coffee]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot) 71(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Covent Garden  
 

Registered by Anth. Osborn proprietor

 
T71/397 C6 1929
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot) 39(F) 43(M)  
[Name] Covent Garden  
 

John T. Osborn attorney.

 
T71/413 C5
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot) 48(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Covent Garden  
 

In lawful possession of John Osborn by his attorney J.T. Osborn

 
T71/414 446-448
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot) 38(F) 33(M)  
[Name] Covent Garden  
 

Belonging to Pln Covent Garden in lawful possession of the heirs of John Osborn deceased [signed by Thomas A Osborn, joint proprietor]

 
T71/430 551-553