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Hope & Experiment

British Guiana | Berbice

Estate Details

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
- 1834 [EY] → Other
Arabella Morris (née Beard)
1818 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hugh McCalmont of Abbeylands

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 218 (Hope & Experiment)
£14,639 15S 10D
British Guiana 197 (Plantation Hope and Experiment)
£7,244 5S 2D

Estate Information (4)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 286(Tot) 128(F) 158(M)  
[Name] Hope & Experiment  
 

Return of slaves attached to Hope & Experiment or No. 15 and 16 situate on the west sea coast the property of Hugh McAlmont. This return made by John McLennan attorney to Hugh McAlmont 01/12/1817.

 
T71/437 218-220
1825
[Name] Hope & Experiment  
 

Return of slaves on Pl. Hope & Experiment West Sea Coast the property of H. McCalmont this return made by James Culley attorney. 286 +19 (12m 7f) - 20 (12m 8f) = 285.

 
T71/442 539-542
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)  
[Name] Hope & Experiment  
 

The property of Hugh McAlmont, attached to Pln. Hope & Experiment, West Sea Coast of the colony of Berbice, by James Culley his attorney

 
T71/443 123-124
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot)  
[Name] Hope & Experiment  
 

The property of Hugh McAlmont, attached to Pln. Hope & Experiment, West Sea Coast of the colony of Berbice, by Campbell Faloon his attorney

 
T71/444 355-358