UCL

Mount Pleasant

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1820 [EY] → Owner
John Lowndes
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other
John Henry Newman

30 enslaved people were removed from the estate to Canefield Estate by John Newman and wife, being their moiety of the enslaved people, in July 1826.

The corresponding entry for Cane Field or Canefield in Dominica shows the same 30 enslaved people had been purchased from John Henry Newman and wife in July 1826 and removed from Mount Pleasant Estate.

1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Grace Walsh

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 282 (Mount Pleasant)
£759 6S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot) 37(F) 31(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Return of John Loundes [= Lowndes], owner. St. Paul.

 
T71/339 235-238
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot) 36(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Returned by John Walsh, agent for an unnamed owner. St. Paul .

 
T71/350 179
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 65(Tot) 36(F) 29(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Return of J L Walsh, registering capacity not given. St. Paul.

 
T71/358 139 - 140
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot) 34(F) 29(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Returned by J L Walsh, manager for an unnamed owner. St. Paul.

 
T71/359 122
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot) 18(F) 13(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant  
 

Returned by J L Walsh, manager for an unnamed owner; includes a full return of the enslaved; 30 enslaved people were removed from the estate to Canefield Estate by John Newman and wife, being their moiety of the enslaved people, in July 1826. St. Paul.

 
T71/361 253 - 255
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 20(F) 17(M)  
[Name] Mount Pleasant Estate  
 

Return of Grace Walsh, owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. Paul.

 
T71/363 102