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Presumed Late Grantees

Those individuals we have categorized as “Presumed Late Grantees” are both those individuals for whom we can definitively document a land grant dating after 1830, and those individuals for whom we have no grant date, but based upon the fact that their grants were less than 30 acres (often around 20 acres), we assume are Late Grantees. Most Presumed Late Grantees received their land after the passage by the Bahamian legislature of the Commutation Act of 1847, when the Crown regranted parcels of land (“deeds of commutation”). This act allowed individuals who were physically occupying land to back-pay overdue quit rents for land that had been seized from the original grantee or his/her heirs and assigns, and to become the owner of the land in fee simple. 

An escheat occurred when all the “issue” (children) of the original grantee died, and the granted land returned to the Crown to be re-issued. Long Island had numerous examples of both of these types of land conveyance. With a few notable exceptions such as the Calabash Limited acquisition in 1962 of Galiot Cay and Cape Santa Maria following passage of the “Quieting Titles Act” of 1959, a majority of the Presumed Late Grantees received their land between 1847 and 1873. A small handful received their land in 1918-1919 for reasons we did not explore. This class of individuals has not been explored for this phase of the project, but more work to flesh out them and their lives is tentatively planned for later phases.

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Name: Settlement

Prince ?: Upper Tatnalls

Allen Adderley: Stella Maris

S. Adderley: Stella Maris

Dim Adderley: Stella Maris

Prince Adderley: Upper Tatnalls

Peter Adderley: Upper Tatnalls

Pollydore Bethel: Buckleys

W. Bow: Lower Deadmans Cay

Lewis Bowe: Upper Tatnalls

Jane Bowe: Buckleys

David Andrew Brice: Sam McKinnons

Joseph Butler: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Rev. Henry Capron: Sam McKinnons

Archibald Cartwright: Benzies & Hamilton

Charles A Cartwright: Lower Deadmans Cay

Thomas Cartwright: Cartwright

Joseph H. Deal: Deals

James Dean: Doctors Creek

Bandy Dean: Doctors Creek

William Dean: Roses

Emily Dorsett: Oneils-Scrub Hill

David Evans: Deals

Smart Farrington: Upper Tatnalls

Archy Gardener: Benzies

Caesar Gibson: Benzie's

Lydia Glenton: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Dennis Gray: Morris

Sawyer Harden: Upper Tatnalls

David Harden: Upper Tatnalls

Daniel Harden: Upper Tatnalls

Joseph Hardy: Lower Deadmans Cay

Clarissa Jones: Upper Tatnalls

Samuel Knowles: Benzies

E. Esau Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

Edward Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

Francis S. Knowles: Morris

Peter Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

Cato Knowles: Bains & Upper Tatnalls

Elijah Knowles: Morris

Eleanor Knowles: McKenzies

John Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

Comoda (B) Knowles: Morris

Ishmael Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

Arthur Knowles: Doctors Creek & Upper Tatnalls

? Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

T. Knowles: Upper Tatnalls

James Knowles: Upper Tatnalls, Upper East Channel Cay

Joseph Knowles: Doctors Creek

William Knowles: Alligator Bay, Bains, Upper Tatnalls

Micheal Knowles: Benzies

John Knowles : Upper Tatnalls

Cash Laurimer: Benzies

Calabash limited: Seymours/Hog Cay/Galliot Cay

Charles Lopez: Benzies

Charles Lucas: Benzies

Japheth V. Malone: Upper Tatnalls

S. A. McPhee: Upper Tatnalls

? Millar: Sam McKinnons

J. Millar: Sam McKinnons

? Miller: Sam McKinnons

T. Miller: Sam McKinnons

David Miller: Sam McKinnons

D. Miller: Upper Tatnalls

Thomas Miller: Sam McKinnons

Henry Murray: Benzies

James Pinder: Clarencetown

Amos Pinder: Clarencetown

Pompey Pratt: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Alexander Pratt: Deals

William Pratt: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Thomas Pratt: Oneils-Scrub Hill

John Pratt: Oneils-Scrub Hill

T. Rahming: Deals

James Rahming: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Toby Rahming: Deadmans Cay

E. Rahming: Deals

Thomas Rahming: Oneils-Scrub Hill

J. Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

July Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

William Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill & Stella Maris

E. Smith: Stella Maris

Monday Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

J. ?. Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

March Smith: Deals

Samuel Smith: Stella Maris

Copeland Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Jarred Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Moses Smith: Deals

C. Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

? Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

James Smith: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Scipio Taylor: Deadmans Cay

Sampson Taylor: Upper Tatnalls

Theodore Taylor: Alligator Bay

M. Taylor: Deadmans Cay

Robert Taylor: Upper Tatnalls

T. Taylor: Lower Deadmans Cay

Henry Taylor: Bains

King Taylor: Deadmans Cay

Cinderella Taylor: Upper Tatnalls

Charles Taylor: Berrys

William Taylor: Upper Tatnalls

Jack Taylor: Deadmans Cay

Manual Taylor: Doctors Creek

Robert Thompson: Upper Tatnalls

Nelson Wallace: Upper Tatnalls

Duncan Wallace: Roses

Diana Watkins: Cabbage Point

Washington Wells: Deadmans Cay

July Wells: Upper Tatnalls

William Wells: Old Grays

Hardy Williams: Clarencetown

John Wilson: Old Grays

Octavious Wilson: Benzies

Essex Wilson: Andersons

Edinborough Wilson: Oneils-Scrub Hill

E. Wilson: Oneils-Scrub Hill

Peter Wright: Benzies

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