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Old Inhabitants

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A person living in the Bahamas before the arrival of American Loyalists (See Below). For our purposes, we labeled people as Old Inhabitants if they were in the Bahamas prior to 1780.  Old Inhabitants tended to be merchants and lawyers and shopkeepers, and subsistence farmers, having a diversified economy in the Out Islands.

Robert Culmer

Settlement

Stella Maris

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Not on L&S map - Tatnall only

William Culmer

Settlement

Glintons & Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-19 (80 acres, 9 July 1790), D-89 (40 acres, 31 May 1788)

Richard Curtis

Settlement

Stella Maris

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-118 (40 acres, 21 Jul 1788/9)

Neptune Curtis Jr.

Settlement

Burnt Ground & Stella Maris

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-147 (Unknown acres, May 1789), D-118 (60 acres, 19 Jul 1789)

Neptune Curtis Sr.

Settlement

Stella Maris

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-109 (40 acres, 9 Jul 1790)

Margaret Dallas

Settlement

Alligator Bay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-138 (80 acres, 6 Jul 1799)

Jeremiah Darville

Settlement

Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-50 (420 acres, 17 Jul 1788)

John Darville

Settlement

Lower Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-43 (200 acres, 3 Apr 1788)

Marmaduke Darville

Settlement

Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-87 (80 acres, 31 Nov 1788)

John Drudge

Settlement

The Bight

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-52 (100 acres, 28 Jul 1788), D-63 (40 acres, 24 Oct 1788)

William Drudge

Settlement

Bowers

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-36 (80 acres, 15 Jul 1788)

John Duncan

Settlement

Wemyss, The Bight & Gordons

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-53 (40 acres, 25 Jun 1788), D-152 (100 acres, 2 Feb 1789), D-116 (180 acres, 2 July 17??)

Charles Ellis

Settlement

Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-40 (220 acres, 6 Oct 1790 )

Abraham Eve

Settlement

Burnt Ground

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-106 (68 acres, 11 Sept 1789), D-56 (740 acres, 22 Jun 1790)

John Ferguson

Settlement

Oneils-Scrub Hill & Lower Tatnalls

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-23 (400 acres, 17 Nov 1789), D-124 (200 acres, 28 Jun 1789), D-68 (66 acres, 8 Jul 1788), D-113 (120 acres, 21 Jun 1789)

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