The Guyanese Deeds Name Who Bought Your Village — 83 For Victoria, 128 For Buxton

👉 THE SURNAME PAPERS — the full collection: https://theafricangenome.com The transports, village by village, with the buyers named as the clerk spelled them. On 2 November 1839, eighty-three people who had been enslaved on five East Coast Demerara estates — Douchfour, Ann's Grove, Hope, Paradise and Enmore — bought Plantation Northbrook for 30,000 guilders and renamed it Victoria. The title went into six names, with every one of the eighty-three holding one undivided eighty-third share. That decision is why families on that coast still cannot sell ground they have lived on for six generations. One year later, 128 people bought Plantation New Orange Nassau — 580 acres, $50,000 — and called it Buxton. In this video: where the money came from, and why it is not a miracle; why the purchase had to be collective (the answer is the sea dam, not ideology); Beterverwagting, bought 8 May 1840 by 62 people from Baron van Groningen; Plaisance, bought from A. J. Watershodt for $39,000; Queenstown, Essequibo, christened by the Governor in 1841; why Berbice families are looking in a different set of books; and the reason Guyana holds a public, court-supervised record of Black people buying land that no other Caribbean country has — it never gave up Roman-Dutch law, which is why the document is called a transport and why every sale was printed in the Gazette with names in it. Comments: your village, the name your old people say bought it, and whether that name appears on the papers your family holds today. That gap is the whole subject. Subscribe to The African Genome. #Guyana #Guyanese #Buxton #Victoria #Berbice #Demerara #Essequibo #VillageMovement #BlackHistory #AfricanAncestry #Surnames #Genealogy #Caribbean