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Cotton Tree

British Guiana | Berbice

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
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Wolfert Katz

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 89 (Cotton Tree)
£11,766 10S 1D

Estate Information (4)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 246(Tot) 117(F) 129(M)  
[Name] Cotton Tree  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Cotton Tree situate on the West Coast, the property of W. Katz Esq.

 
T71/437 183-185
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Cotton Tree  
 

Return of slaves the property of Wolfert Katz attached to Plan. Cotton Tree. 275 + 16 (6m 10f) - 31 (18m 13f) = 260

 
T71/442 477-480
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)  
[Name] Cotton Tree  
 

Property of Wolfert Katz, return made by Wolfert Katz (although apparently signed by G. Lowenfeld). The additions since 1825 included 24 people purchased from Simon Fraser qq Colin Campbell & Co., previously registered for the estate of J. Bethune.

 
T71/443 67-72
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 257(Tot)  
[Name] Cotton Tree  
 

Property of Wolfert Katz, attached to Pln Cotton Tree, return made by Wolfert Katz

 
T71/444 273-276