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Belair, Belvedere and Petit Carenage Estates

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (13)

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 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Previous owner
Patrick Bartlet
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Alexander George Milne junior
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
William Bartlet [Bartlett]
1830 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
Crawford Davison Kerr
1830 [SY] - 1844 [EY] → Annuitant
Ann Bartlet (née Span)
1776 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Owner
Angus Mackay or McKay

Angus McKay 'Proprietor Absent', James White manager in 1790. Angus Mackay [sic] was also shown as the Inhabitant for an unnamed estate of 175 acres in 1776 that given it had the same acreage was almost certainly the same estate as P. Carenage in 1790 of which he was shown as absentee owner.

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 Tables 4 and 5.

1790 [EA] - 1790 [LA] → Owner
John Reid of Grenada and Greenwich Kent

John Reid was shown as Absent proprietor of Belair in 1790. In 1776 John Reid had owned an unnamed cotton estate of 96 acres with 37 enslaved people, probably the precursor to Belair.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
George McLean
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
George McLean
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
Patrick Bartlet
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
John Dallas
1830 [EA] - → Annuitant
Mary Bartlet (née Leslie)
1830 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Dorothea Milne was Span (née Munro)

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 991A & B (Belair, Belvedere and Petit Carenage Ests.)
£3,211 8S 10D

Estate Information (7)

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1776
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] None given but almost certainly Petit Carenage  
[Size] 175  
[Crop] Cotton (13,275 pounds)  
 

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.

1790
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot)  
[Name] Belair  
[Size] 96  
[Crop] Cotton (21,500 pounds)  
 

Manager John Barclay, 'Proprietor Absent' John Reid. 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.

1790
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] P. Carenage  
[Size] 175  
[Crop] Cotton (12,350 pounds)  
 

Angus McKay 'Proprietor Absent', James White Manager.

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
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Belair, Belvedir and Petit Covenage  
 

In lawful possession of George McLean, proprietor and attorney for P. Bartlet.

 
T71/267 193-196
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 54(F) 52(M)  
[Name] Belair Belvidere and Petit Carnage Estates  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Dallas as Attorney or Agent for George McLean and Patrick Bartlet.

 
T71/285 278
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 58(F) 53(M)  
[Name] Belvidere and Petit Carnage Estates  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George McLean as Proprietor and Attorney for Patrick Bartlet.

 
T71/311 24
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot) 68(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Belair, Belvidere & Petit Carenage Estates  
 

Belonging to George McLean & Dorothea Milne and in possession of George McLean Attorney.

 
T71/317 45-46