UCL

Plaisance Estate

Grenada | St Patrick

Estate Details

Associated People (9)

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
16/04/1830 [SD] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Archibald Paull
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Other
Catherine Corsar formerly Green

The estate was advertised for sale in 1771 subject to the right of dower of Catherine Corsar formerly Green, which right was to be settled under a Chancery suit then in progress.

1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
William Manning
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
Hon. George Gun Munro of Grenada
1826 [EA] - → Owner
John Henry Earle Berkeley
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Henry Earle Berkeley
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Berkeley
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
Lewis Hoyes
1832 [EA] - → Not known
William M. Burrell

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 700 (Plaisance Estate)
£3,140 18S 5D

Estate Information (8)

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1771
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] Plaisance  
[Size] 415  
 

In 1771, the Plaisance estate in St Patrick, belonging to the late George Green, was advertised in London as for sale in Grenada. The schedule of payment by instalments specified in the sale particulars suggest that a minimum price in excess of £30,000 was expected. The estate was subject to the claim for dower by Catherine Corsar, the wife of the Hon. Frederick Corsar, formerly the widow of George Green: the right was to be settled before the sale under a Chancery suit then pending.

 
London Gazette 11146 21/05/1771 p. 6.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro attorney of William Manning.

 
T71/265 403-405
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot) 61(F) 57(M)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of William Manning.

 
T71/274 158
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 55(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George Gun Munro as Attorney of William Manning.

 
T71/285 115
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 60(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Attached to Plaisance Estate in the lawful possession of John Berkeley as proprietor.

 
T71/299 130
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot) 60(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Thomas and John Berkeley as Proprietors.

 
T71/311 224-225
1830
[Name] Plaisance  
 

Archibald Paull became a mortgagee by an indenture dated 16/04/1830 for "£20,000 and upwards".

 
T71/880 Grenada claim no. 700
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 55(F) 66(M)  
[Name] Plaisance Estate  
 

Belonging to Thomas and John Berkeley by Wm. M. Burrell.

 
T71/317 212