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Mount Alexander

Grenada | St Patrick

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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
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Previous owner
Alexander Wilson
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Andrew Houston or Houstoun the younger, of Jordanhill

Inferred from Douglas Hamilton’s ‘Scottish Trading in the Caribbean: The Rise and Fall of Houstoun & Co.’, in Ned C. Landsman (ed), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2001): ''In July 1777, Alexander Houstoun & co. took over the ownership of the Mount Alexander estate from their debtor Alexander Wilson.'

1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
William McDowall III of Garthland

Inferred from Douglas Hamilton’s ‘Scottish Trading in the Caribbean: The Rise and Fall of Houstoun & Co.’, in Ned C. Landsman (ed), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2001): ''In July 1777, Alexander Houstoun & co. took over the ownership of the Mount Alexander estate from their debtor Alexander Wilson.'

1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Previous owner
William McDowall III of Garthland
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
Joseph Kaye
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
Aaron Graham
1817 [EA] - → Trustee
Henry Litchfield
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Hon. George Gun Munro of Grenada
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Lewis Hoyes
1834 [EA] - → Owner
William McDowall the younger of Castle Semple

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 688 (Mount Alexander)
£5,139 13S 9D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier des Sauteurs and the parish of St. Patrick, identified as lot 3 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 4 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Mount Alexander.

See also Des Iles estate in St Patrick which contained the provision grounds for Mount Alexander.

Estate Information (10)

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1763
[Name] Lot 3  
[Size] 119  
[Crop] coffee and savannah  
 

In 1763, the estate was 118.5 acres, of which 70 was under cultivation. The estate was growing coffee with grassland too. Proprietors given as Jean and Michael Paponet.

 
'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
1777
[Name] Mount Alexander  
 

In July 1777, Alexander Houstoun & co. took over the ownership of the Mount Alexander estate from their debtor Alexander Wilson, Douglas Hamilton’s ‘Scottish Trading in the Caribbean: The Rise and Fall of Houstoun & Co.’, in Ned C. Landsman (ed), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2001).

1782
[Name] Lot 3  
[Size] 379  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 379 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. 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] 201(Tot)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro, attorney of Aron Graham, Henry Litchfield and Joseph Kaye, trustees of Messrs. A. Houstoun & Co. and worked upon Mount Alexander Estate.

 
T71/265 374-377
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 107(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of the Trustees and Exors of William McDowall of Garthland decd.

 
T71/274 142-143
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 108(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of the Exors and Trustees of William McDowall decd.

 
T71/285 112-113
1824
[Name] Mount Alexander  
[Size] 379  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 4 in St Patrick corresponding with Lot 3 in St Patrick on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 379 acres, proprietor A. McDowall.

 
'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. 7
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 112(F) 85(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  
 

In possession of George Gun Munro attorney of the executors and trustees of William McDowall deceased.

 
T71/299 135
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 109(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Lewis Hoyes as Attorney for the Exor and Trustee of William McDowall decd.

 
T71/311 230-231
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 111(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Mount Alexander  
 

By Colin Duncan Sutherland attorney. No owner's name given.

 
T71/317 189