UCL

Golden Grove

St Vincent

Estate Details

Associated People (8)

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
Mortgage Holder
Coll Turner

Shown in 1804 as having held (with Alexander Innes) a mortgage of £10,863 11s 4d that by 1796 had been assigned to Alexander Houston & Co.

Mortgage Holder
Alexander Inness

Shown in 1804 as having held (with Coll Turner) a mortgage of £10,863 11s 4d that by 1796 had been assigned to Alexander Houston & Co.

1796 [EA] - 1799 [LA] → Seller
William Doyle of St Vincent
1796 [EA] - 1802 [LA] → Owner
Andrew McCracken
1802 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Anthony Browne

In 1817 the enslaved people on Golden Grove estate was registered to 'McCracken and Brown'. Deeds of lease and release of 09/04/1804 and 10/04/1804 show William Doyle late of St Vincent but then of Trinidad (eldest son and heir at law of William Doyle of St Vincent) selling Golden Grove and 104 'negroes and other slaves' named in a schedule to Andrew McCracken of St Vincent and Anthony Browne of the City of London. The indentures rehearsed an earlier agreement of 12/11/1796 whereby the elder William Doyle had agreed to sell Golden Grove to Andrew McCracken for £24,666 free of all encumbrances other than (1) a mortgage for £10,863 11s 4d to Col [sic] Turner and Alexander Innes of London which by assignment was vested in Alexander Houstoun & Co. of Glasgow and (2) judgments for over £10,000 of which the largest was £8640 currency to Peter Haffey against William Doyle and Charles James Warner; and (3) an annuity of £200 p.a. on the lives of William Doyle and Susannah his wife that McCracken agreed to grant to the couple. On 24/06/1802 McCracken agreed to sell Anthony Browne a moiety of the estate and the 137 enslaved people then attached to it for £13,500. Browne was to clear the mortgages and McCracken was to apply the purchase money to clearing the judgments. William Doyle the elder had died in 1799 without perfecting the sale to McCracken and the 1804 deed by the younger William Doyle was to remedy this.

1802 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Andrew McCracken
1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Hon. William Fraser

Hon. Wm. Fraser and his partners were awarded the compensation for Golden Grove as mortgagees under a deed of 17/02/1821.

1822 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Christopher Punnett

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 599 (Golden Grove)
£3,101 19S 9D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

McCracken & Brown as owners.

 
T71/493 356-358
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 130(Tot) 65(F) 65(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

Christopher Punnett as owner [c. 25 enslaved people removed from Cheltenham Estate, Mustique].

 
T71/495 176-177
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 62(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

Christopher Punnett [17 deaths].

 
T71/497 130
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 70(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

Christopher Punnett [c. 25 enslaved people removed from Cheltenham Estate, Mustique].

 
T71/497 131-132
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot) 70(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

Christopher Punnett [decrease by deaths].

 
T71/499 118
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 56(F) 49(M)  
[Name] Golden Grove Estate  
 

Golden Grove Estate. The property of Christopher Punnett. Statement sworn by himself [1 enslaved person declared as having obtained freedom under the third section of the Slavery Abolition Act, having been in England]. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 105 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 165-166