Histories

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John Lamont, 1782 – 1850
The natural son of James Lamont of Knockdow,
1. and to begin with a 'writer in Greenock'
2. He never married.
3. 1802 Went to Trinidad as overseer of Eccles plantation (? on the south coast)
1807 French slaves revolt in Chaguaramas
1807 Slave Trade abolished by Britain
1808 Port of Spain virtually destroyed by fire 9a
1809 Bought 50% share of Cedar Grove, 360 acrres' S of San Fernando.
1810 Trinidad's problems: bad bread, medical quacks, small pox, illegal immigrants, bad roads.
1817 Director of Trinidad Steamboat Company.
1818 Big fire in San Fernandez
1819 Bought out his partner in Cedar Grove.
1820 Fined $500 for duelling.
1821 Bought Canaan (S of San Fernando) and gave it to his half brother Boydon.
1823 Commandant of the Quarter of South Naparima.
1825 Bought more estates in S Naparima, S of San Fernando, (Palmiste) & Cascade
1828 Oct. – June 1829 in U.K. Made annual visits to U.K. thereafter.
1833 Slavery abolished, freeing 11,800 plantation slaves, 3,500 domestic (slaves cost c.£85) 10 Most sugar estates had 10 or less slaves; only 1% had over 100
1834 Effective end of slavery in the island 8 Emancipated slaves walk on Port of Spain.
1835 Road Commissioner for S.Naparima. Visited Britain, and returned with his cousin (by marriage) George Cole on the Gleniffer. (George Cole was his agent organising the sugar sales in Glasgow.)
1837 Boydon died; buried in the family burial ground in Canaan. He now had 800 acres, with a fine stone mansion at Cascade on the River Estate, W of Port of Spain.
1839 With George Cole bought the Medora (298 tons) for £3,700.
1845 Indians started arriving
1848 Visited Scotland.
Nov 21,1850 Died suddenly at his residence in Diego Martin Valley, Cascade, NW of Port of Spain. Buried in the family burial ground at Canaan, next to his brother Boydon.
Memorial tablet in Inverchaolain Church