Gavin Smith - Grenada Estate Surveys

[David Watson]

Off list some of us are trying to identify Gavin Smith's surveys of the
estates of Grenada. We think there are more than one, and would ask anybody
with information, to contact us, either on or off list, with details.

A little snippet for interest:
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Transcript from:
Source: The Grenada Handbook and Directory 1946
1801 [Year]
Governor Green went on leave of absence on June 8, 1801, and
Lieutenant-Governor Houston, who was to have relieved him, not having
arrived, the President of the Council, the Rev. Samuel Dent, assumed the
Government. York House and the copyright of Mr. Gavin Smith's map of Grenada
were purchased in the course of the year; the flaws of the latter purchase
appear, even at this early date, to have attracted attention, for we find
complaints that the actual details of some of the properties would not "fit
in" with the map.
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We don't need the names or the proprietors. We would just like to nail down
the dates of the surveys.

We hope to expand the information. Pre-1838 locations in Grenada, at least
in "the country," by which I mean away from St George's, which is pretty
well everywhere, are all about estates. Even post-1838, the villages took
the names of the close estates.

So, we're hoping we can add a little to c1838, and before and after, info on
place names and family names.

Of course, if there is any other relevant info on estate or place names,
please let us know.

Dennis, I've not forgotten you.

David Watson
family...@utoronto.ca

[Dennis Perkins]

David

thanks

regards

dennis

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