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Grenada Plantation Reconveyance Mortgage Document

 Collection
Identifier: SC59

Abstract

Mortgage document dated 31 March 1774 between Charles Sloane Cadogan (of Whitehall, Westminster) on the one hand and four British subjects on the other: Sir Robert Cockburn Bt., Sir George Colebrooke Bt., John Stewart and John Nelson. The agreement is for a loan of £20,500 to purchase from Andrew Davoran a 320-acre estate in St. George's parish, Grenada, West Indies. The document includes the names of about fifty slaves (first-name only) as well as other possessions and equipment on the plantation. Three of the slaves are identified by their particular roles on the plantation, e.g. boiler. Seals of all the parties are to be found at the bottom of the document along with their signatures, while the names of witnesses to the agreement are at the back. The document is encased in a green leather wallet, presumably from the early twentieth century, with 'The Poor Slave' inscribed on the front.

Dates

  • 1774

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Custodial History

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, bought this mortgage document in 2003 from Jill McMillan in Scotland who had inherited it from her father. He had previously acquired the document from a local historian in Scotland.

Title
Grenada Plantation Re-Conveyance Mortgage Document
Status
Completed
Author
Special Collections Department
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies Repository

Contact:
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
868-662-2002 Ext 82132
868-662-9238 (Fax)