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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.

Benjamin Newton

Settlement

Newton Cay, Seymours, Galliot Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-84 (80 acres, 21 Mar 1791), D-58 (242 acres, 31 May 1788?), 50 acres Galliot Cay only on Tatnall Map

Abraham Pratt

Settlement

Glintons

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-107 (490 acres, 13 Aug 1789), D-83 (400 acres, 13 Aug 1789)

Joseph Pritchard

Settlement

Lower Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-45 (80 acres, 23 Jul 1788)

Robert Pritchard

Settlement

Lower Deadmans Cay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Not on L&S map - Tatnall only

John Rahming

Settlement

Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-39 (160 acres, 14 Nov 1788)

James Ridley

Settlement

Roses

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Not on L&S map - Tatnall only

John Roberts

Settlement

Miley

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-122 (80 acres, 12 Aug 1789)

Michael Rogers

Settlement

Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-24 (300 acres, 3 Nov 1788)

James Rose

Settlement

Roses

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-152 (1000 acres, 24 Apr 1792), (860 acres, 11 Aug 1789)

Parr Ross

Settlement

Simms & Doctors Creek

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-104 (300 acres, 22 October 1790), D-135 (300 acres, 22 October 1790), D-136 (300 acres, 22 October 1790)

Robert Rumer

Settlement

Burrows Harbour

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-112 (160 acres, 15 Dec 1789)

Benjamin Simms

Settlement

Upper Tatnalls

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-163 (220 acres, 1828)

Thomas Smith

Settlement

Clarencetown

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-34 (300 acres, 16 Nov 1788)

William Smith

Settlement

Miley

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-132 (80 acres, 17 Mar 1790)

James Spatches

Settlement

Salt Pond

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-54 (57 acres, 5 Oct 1790)

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