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Palmyra

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] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Richard Pinniger Broome

Shown as 'R.P. Broom'

1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Heir
Christopher Edmund Broome

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 374 (Palmyra)
£4,124 9S 11D

Estate Information (5)

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1815
[Name] Palmyra  
 

In 1815 at the instigation of Evan Fraser (to whom Colin Macrae, the attorney of Archibald M'Queen, had assigned the estate), Palmyra and the enslaved people on it, the property of R.P. Broom, were to be auctioned in Berbice.

 
London Gazette 17044 25/07/1815 pp. 1523-1524
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot) 31(F) 46(M)  
[Name] Palmyra  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Palmyra Berbice situate on the East Coast the property of R.P. Broom, return by Evan Fraser attorney for said property 11/12/1817.

 
T71/473 54
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
 

Return of slaves on Plantation Palmyra the property of R.P. Broom this return by S. Fraser. Previously 81, 6 additions (3M 3F) 5 deductions (3M 2F) total 82.

 
T71/442 189-190
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
 

Return of slaves on Plantation Palmyra the property of R.P. Broom this return by Simon Fraser

 
T71/443 521-524
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 86(Tot)  
[Name] Palmyra  
 

Return of slaves on Plantation Palmyra the property of the heirs of Cr. Broome this return by Simon Fraser

 
T71/444 47-48