UCL

The Retreat

St Vincent

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
- 1786 [EY] → Owner
George Ross of Cromarty
1810 [EA] - 1810 [LA] → Previous owner
George Ross of Cromarty

Notes

The Retreat appears in a deed of 01/08/1810, where it as shown as having been owned by George Ross of Cromarty and left in trust under entail. The enslaved people on it appear to have been transferred or subsumed into Orange Hill by 1817. See Orange Hill for more detail on the deed of 1810.

Sources

Deed Book 1810, British Library, EAP688/1/1/21, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-21 pp. 310-325.