Brunswick Estate

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
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Owner

The unnamed estate held by Robert Youn[g] in 1776 shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 4 has been inferred by LBS to have been Brunswick.

1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Owner

Shown as A.W. Young in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 5.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Attorney

Associated Claims (1)

£2,788 6S 0D

Estate Information (9)

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1776
[Number of enslaved people] 75(Tot)  
[Name] Not given  
[Size] 196  
[Crop] Cotton (23,596 pounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 4, again tRobert Youn[g]. Inferred to have been Brunswick, later owned by Robert Young's son Alexander William (A.W.) Young.

1790
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] Brunswick  
[Size] 196  
[Crop] Cotton (19,800 pounds)  
 

Shown in David Beck Ryden ''One of the Finest and Most Fruitful Spots in America': an Analysis of Eighteenth-century Carriacou', Journal of Interdisciplinary History XLIII:4 (Spring 2013) pp. 539-570 Table 5, manager Alexander Young.

1793
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] Brunswick  
[Size] 198  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

The Brunswick cotton estate on Carriacou with 198 acres of land and 59 'seasoned healthy negroes' was advertised for sale at New Lloyd's Coffee House in 1793.

 
London Gazette 13518 09/04/1793 p. 293
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Brunswick Estate  
 

In lawful possession of George McLean, attorney to the heirs of the late Henry F. Rogers.

 
T71/267 185-187
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 52(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Brunswick Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Donald McKellan as Agent for George McLean, Attorney for the Heirs of the late Henry J Rogers decd.

 
T71/285 267
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot) 48(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Brunswick Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of George McLean attorney for the heirs of the late Henry J. Rogers deceased.

 
T71/299 320
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 49(F) 54(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of The Hon George McLean as Attorney to the Heirs of the late Henry F Roger.

 
T71/311 19
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 49(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Brunswick Estate  
 

Belonging to and worked upon Brunswick Estate in the Island of Carriacou the property of the Heirs of the late Henry F. Rogers and in the Lawful possession of George McLean their Attorney.

 
T71/317 45
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot) 49(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Brunswick  
 
T71/328 44-48