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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.

John Sweeting

Settlement

Deals

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-111 (240 acres)

Alexander Thompson

Settlement

Thompson Bay & Salt Pond

Old Inhabitant

Grants

Not on L&S map - Tatnall only

Alice Thompson

Settlement

Salt Pond & Thompson Bay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-133 (153 acres, 1 Feb 1791), D-82 (100 acres, 1 Feb 1791)

Ann Thompson

Settlement

Bowers

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-7 (200 acres, 17 Dec 1788)

Benjamin Thompson

Settlement

Thompson Bay

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-48 (80 acres, 1 Feb 1791)

Thomas Thompson

Settlement

Clarencetown

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-29 (80 acres, 9 Feb 1789)

William Thompson

Settlement

Gordons

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-101 (580 acres)

William Walker

Settlement

Bunches

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-157 (190 acres, 22 Dec 1791)

Jeremiah Wells

Settlement

Lower Deadmans Cay & New Found Harbour Islands

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-46 (220 acres, 2 Oct 1790), D-130 (20 acres, 2 Oct 1790)

John Wells

Settlement

Simms

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-67 (540 acres)

Francis Williams

Settlement

Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-41 (100 acres, 23 Aug 1790)

William Williams

Settlement

Pinders

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-142 (28 acres)

Sarah Wilson

Settlement

Bains

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-73 (640 acres, 4 Sept 1790), D-107 (40 acres, unknown date)

William Wilson

Settlement

Millerton, Old Grays

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-158 (500 acres, 21 Nov 1788), D-62 (100 acres, 21 Nov 1788), D-62 (160 acres, 21 Nov 1788)

William Wilson Jr.

Settlement

Old Grays

Old Inhabitant

Grants

D-61 (67 acres, 21 Nov 1788)

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