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Farm & Vrede en Rust

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
- 1830 [LA] → Owner
Victor Amadeus Heyliger

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 638 (Farm & Vrede Rust (?))
£13,955 15S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1798
[Name] The Farm  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

The Farm, shown as plantation no. 18 under the heading 'A la cote Orientale de Demerarie', proprietaire Boedel Heiliger, 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
1798
[Name] Vreede Rust  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

Vreede Rust, shown as plantation no. 19 under the heading 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', J.P. Slingaarde, 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] 295(Tot) 133(F) 162(M)  
[Name] Farm & Vreede Rust  
 

V.A. Heyliger registered 295 enslaved people on Farm & Vreede Rust as proprietor in 1817

 
T71/397 F3 2818
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 278(Tot) 132(F) 146(M)  
[Name] Farm & Vrede Rust  
 

In the lawful possession of Stephen Cramer and J.F. Sils qq. V.A. Heyliger, signed J.F. Sils

 
T71/416 1203-1209
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot) 133(F) 142(M)  
[Name] Farm & Vrede en Rust  
 

Belonging to Pln Farm and Vrede and Rust in the lawful possession of M. Nypels, C. Revers, J.A. D. Koolhaas and M.J. Retemeyer, curators.

 
T71/430 553-559