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Bon Air Estate

Grenada | St Mark

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Associated People (10)

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
13/07/1830 [SD] - → Mortgage Holder
Rowland Maltby
13/07/1830 [SD] - → Mortgage Holder
Louisa Maltby (née Pollok)
1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
David McEwen
1830 [EA] - → Tenant-in-common
James Gerbe[r]t Dumont
1830 [EA] - → Tenant-in-common
M. Aquart
1830 [EA] - → Tenant-in-common
R. de Bellot
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
Charles De Bellot
1834 [EA] - → Other
Peter Gibbs
1834 [EA] - → Other
Edward Gibbs
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-in-common
Charles De Bellot

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 565 (Bon Air Estate)
£3,373 2S 8D

Notes

This was one of three estates (with Duquesne and Grosse Pointe) confiscated by the British government from Grenadian rebels c. 1797. Grosse Pointe appears to have been discontinued as an estate after 1820, and the enslaved people redistributed to Duquesne and Bon Air, which were retained until the eve of Emancipation. K. J. Kesselring '"Negroes of the Crown": The Management of Slaves Forfeited by Grenadian Rebels, 1796-1831', Journal of the Canadian Historical Association - Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, vol. 22, no 2 (2011), pp. 1-29.

Estate Information (9)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 26  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 26 acres, of which 26 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as Closier.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 83  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 83 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a watermill. No proprietor's name given.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Bon Air Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwan, His Majesty's Reciever for Confiscated Properties and worked upon Bon Air Estate.

 
T71/265 257-259
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 64(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Bonifer Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of Forfeited Properties.

 
T71/274 5
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot) 66(F) 67(M)  
[Name] Bon Air Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of confiscated estates.

 
T71/285 48-49
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot)  
[Name] Bon lui  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 3 in St Mark, corresponding with Lot 4 in St Mark on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 223 acres, 'forfeited'.

 
'Reference to the plan of the Island of Grenada by Gavin Smith showing the names of all the different estates; the proprietors' names (corrected up to 1824); the species of produce made; and the quantity of land belonging to each' (London, 1882) p. 6
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 66(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Bonair Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of David McEwen receiver of Confiscated Estates.

 
T71/299 2-3
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 68(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Bonair Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of David McEwen as Receiver of confiscated estates

 
T71/311 90-91
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot) 66(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Bon Air Estate  
 

In lawful possession of Charles De Bellot Esquire as attorney for Heirs of Cloziers.

 
T71/317 146