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New Orange Nassau

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
- 1807 [LA] → Joint owner
John Lespinasse
1802 [EA] - → Joint owner
Anthony Crosby [also given as Crosbie] Martin

Anthony Crosby Martin gained joint possession of a moiety of the estate in a settlement by the Chancery Court (after Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Lespinasse a minor had married Anthony Crosby Martin without the Court's consent) in 1802.

1802 [EA] - → Joint owner
Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin (née Lespinasse)
1815 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
James Bell of London
1815 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Robert Grant
1815 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Clement Bell

James Christian Clement Bell was the heir at law and administrator of James Bell, partner in Reed, Bell (later Bell and Grant) which was mortgagee in 1815.

1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Frederick Cort

Notes

Demerara - not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (5)

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1798
[Name] Nieuw Oranje Nassau  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Shown as plantation no. 36 under the subheading 'De Mahaica a Demerarie', proprietaire Lespinasse, 500 carreaux [C]oton

 
Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1815
[Mortgage] 00/00/00001815  
 

By the Representatives of Anthony Crosby Martin, and Maria Elizabeth Alleyn Martin, born Lespinasse, a Mortgage vested on one undivided moiety of Plantation New Orange Nassau, cum annexis, situated on the East Sea Coast of Demerary - in favour of James Bell, of London, merchant.

 
Royal Gazette19/08/1815
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 78(F) 85(M)  
[Name] New Orange Nassau  
 

F. Cort atty of Martin & Lespinasse prop.

 
T71/397 N1 2146
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot) 92(F) 87(M)  
[Name] New Orange Nassau  
 

In lawful possession of F. Cort qq. and C. Spencer qq.

 
T71/418 2237-2342
1831
[Name] New Orange Nassau  
 

The estate was subject to the Chancery suit of Martin v. Martin in 1831, between the mortgagees of the estate (James Bell, partner with Charles Reed in Reed, Bell and then Bell and Grant, and Bell's heir James Christian Clement Bell) and Anthony Crosbie Martin and his wife Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin [nee Lespinasse], 'Martin v Martin', Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery Vol. II 1831 (1837) pp. 507 et seq. .