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ago we were able to distinguish the remains of a saw-mill and the site of 

 a house where probably the Edmonstones and Dr. Rodie once lived. 



The plantation named Walton Hall, near Devonshire Castle in 

 Essequebo, must have been sold about the time that Charles Waterton 

 gave up his attorneyship in 1812. Mr. J. McKirdy was the owner in 1815, 

 when it was in cotton ; in 1822 B. Kingston was put down as proprietor, 

 and in 1825 tbere were 259 slaves. In 1811 it was a sugar plantation 

 and the produce was recorded as 190,000 lbs. sugar, 2,082 gallons rum 

 and 18,871 gallons molasses ; later it was amalgamated with Devonshire 

 ( astle, and is now included in Hampton Court. 



The estates of Christopher Waterton in 1815 were Fellowship, in 

 coffee, and Bienfait and Jalousie, in coffee and cotton. In 1822 the estates 

 were registered under the name of John Waddell, executor ; there were 

 in 1825, 593 slaves on Fellowship and 313 on La Jalousie. In 1833 La 

 Jalousie was in sugar and cotton, and Fellowship in cotton and planteiins ; 

 they were recorded as the property of the heirs of Waterton, with Robert 

 Waterton as attorney. In 1841 they were linked together and the pro- 

 duce was recorded ;is sugar 499.050 lbs., rum 2,745 gallons; molasses 

 29,787 gallons; coffee 15,000 lbs., and plantains, etc., value $4,243.17. 

 Robert Waterton, the last representative of the family in Demerara, 

 died in 1837, and we find La Jalousie in 1861 as the property of the 

 heirs of Watertou with R. G. Butts as attorney and D. C. Cameron, 

 manager. In 1870 the estate is put down as the property of G. J. Luckie 

 with E. A. Searle as manager. It was amalgamated with Windsor Forest 

 and has been lately abandoned to the Government on account of the 

 difficulties of keeping up sea defences. 



Charles Edmonstone received, among other marks of appreciation for 

 his services, a grant of a mud lot for his timber trade in what is now 

 Georgetown. Stabroek had no room for such a purpose ; it followed, 

 therefore, that most of the timber trade was carried on in front of Pin. 

 Werk-en-Rust, as it is to-day. The only available places belonging to the 

 Government were the Company's paths, the most convenient for the ris- 

 ing districts of Robb's Town and Cumingsburg being that between 

 Vlissingen and La Bourgade, on which the buildings of the R.A. & C. 

 Society now stand. 



On the 18th of April, 1806, Governor Montgomerie granted him a 

 piece of land (mud lot) which is represented to-day by the premises 

 occupied by Messrs. Sandbach. Park er & Co. This was transported in 

 1820, by Robert and Archibald Edmonstone, as attorneys of Charles, to 

 Rose, Croal and Spragg, since which time it has been owned and occupied 

 successively by Jones, Parry and Machray, Donovan, and Perot & Co. 

 In 1826 I find McDonald, Edmonstone & Co. occupying a lot which is 

 probably the site on which Fogarty's boot store now stands. Both of 

 these mud lots were for storing timber, w T hich was probably required in 

 considerable quantities for building the new district of Cumingsburg. 



