UCL

Pln Beterverwagting

British Guiana | Demerara

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
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
Carolus Augustus Van Grovestins
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Carolus Augustus Van Grovestins

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 559 (Pln Beterverwagting)
£2,239 7S 10D

Estate Information (7)

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1798
[Name] Beter Verwagting  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Beter Verwagting, shown as plantation no. 46 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire A.L. C. de Winter, 500 carreaux, C[oton]

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' http://dpc.uba.uva.nl
1798
[Name] Beter Verwagting  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Beter Verwagting, shown in 1798 as Plantation no. 12 under the sub-heading 'A la cote Occidentale de Mahaica', proprietaire J.B. Slingaarde, 250 carreaux, C[oton]

NB this linkage is probably incorrect.

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' http://dpc.uba.uva.nl
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot) 58(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Beterverwagting  
 

Registered by V. A. Heyligen atty of heirs of A.C.S. DeWinter [?].

 
T71/397 B8 2814
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot) 61(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Beterverwagting  
 

C.A. van Grovestins [sic] attorney

 
T71/413 B3
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 66(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Beter Verwagting  
 

In lawful possession of C.A. van Grovestins

This appears to be a duplicate entry of the entry below

 
T71/416 1308-1312
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 143(Tot) 66(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Beeter Verwagting [sic]  
 

C. A. van Grovestins proprietor

 
T71/420 A 1249
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 26(F) 16(M)  
[Name] Better Verwagting [sic]  
 

Belonging to Pln Better Verwagting in lawful possession of C.A. van Grovestein [sic] [by G. Danviel? qq].

 
T71/429 257-259