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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.

J. Fox

Settlement

Upper East channel Key

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-132 (40 acres)

John Fox

Settlement

The Bight

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-32 (60 acres, 25 Jun 1788)

Joseph Fox

Settlement

Grays

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-31 (180 acres, 4 Jul 1788)

Samuel Fox

Settlement

Old Grays

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Only on the Tatnall map.

James Gray

Settlement

Old Grays

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-88 (260 acres, 6 Dec 1788)

Abraham Greenage

Settlement

Cartwright

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-74 (100 acres, 27 Mar 1789)

John Griffin

Settlement

Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Not on L&S map - Tatnall only

Samuel Griffin

Settlement

Lower Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-42 (100 acres, 25 Feb 1791)

Susannah Hewitt

Settlement

Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-135 (84 acres, 27 Feb 1791)

Thomas Hodgson

Settlement

Millerton

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-157 (200 acres, 4 Aug 1791)

John Hunt

Settlement

Mangrove Bush

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-22 (100 acres, 2 Sept 1790)

Robert Hunt

Settlement

Glintons, & Seymours

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-18 (300 acres in Seymours, 31 May 1788), D-18 (845 acres in Glintons, 31 Dec 1788)

George Johnson

Settlement

Burnt Ground , Benzies

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-57 (500 acres, 24 Jul 1788), D-165 (50 acres, 3 Mar 1846)

John Johnson

Settlement

Bunches

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-120 (500 acres, Nov 1789)

William Johnson

Settlement

Burnt Ground

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-65 (160 acres, 17 Feb 1789)

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