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Hermitage

British Guiana | Berbice

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
1818 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Daniel Allt
1825 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
John Tapin

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 368 (Hermitage?)
£8,564 4S 4D

Notes

Berbice - not traced in the compensation records. After Daniel Allt's death between 1822 and 1825, the enslaved people previously attached to the estate were sold off to dozens of different purchasers, but John Tapin appears to have transferred new groups of enslaved people onto the plantation.

Estate Information (5)

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1818
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 71(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

1818 registration by Daniel Allt proprietor situate on the east sea coast [of Berbice], 30/12/1817.

 
T71/437 9-10
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of slaves the property of John Tapin attached to Pln Hermitage No. 13 East Coast, this return made by Charles Kyte. 108 of the enslaved people were transferred from Pln No.50 Courantyn; 77 were transferred from Pln Susannah No. 15 east coast; 15 were bought from Elizabeth Darley; there were 13 births; and one purchase from J.L. Tapin. There were four deaths. The total given in T71/442 p. 717 of 210 appears erroneous. A corresponding entry for Pln No.50 Courantyn [T71/442 pp. 727-728] shows the 108 people there being transferred to Hermitage.

 
T71/442 709-718
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 1(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of slaves the property of the estate of Daniel Allt decd. and attached to Plantation Hermitage situate on the east sea coast Berbice, this return made by J. White one of the curators of the estate of the deceased. Preceding return 210, additions 10, deductions 219, remaining 1. The enslaved people had been sold to dozens of different purchasers.

 
T71/442 137-148
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Hermitage situate on the East Coast of the colony the property of John Tapin, return by Charles Kyte attorney of John Tapin.

 
T71/443 311-314
1831
[Name] Hermitage  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Hermitage situate on the East Coast of the colony the property of John Tapin, return by Charles Kyte attorney of John Tapin. The entry records the sale of all bar four people to E. Gibbons and a handful of other smaller buyers.

 
T71/444 660-671