The Pursuit of Gentility in an Age of Revolution: The Family of Jonathan Worrell
The Worrell family’s half century of connection with Prince Edward Island began in 1803, when Jonathan Worrell, a Barbadian plantation owner living in England, purchased 47,000 acres of land in Kings County. Jonathan’s son, Charles, moved to the Island and managed the estate for more than 40 years,...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/22685 2023-05-15T18:49:54+02:00 The Pursuit of Gentility in an Age of Revolution: The Family of Jonathan Worrell Bittermann, Rusty McCallum, Margaret 2014-11-01 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/22685 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/22685/26326 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/22685/26327 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/22685 Copyright (c) 2015 Acadiensis Acadiensis; Volume XLIII, Number 2 Summer/Autumn - Été/Automne (2014) 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2014 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:40:52Z The Worrell family’s half century of connection with Prince Edward Island began in 1803, when Jonathan Worrell, a Barbadian plantation owner living in England, purchased 47,000 acres of land in Kings County. Jonathan’s son, Charles, moved to the Island and managed the estate for more than 40 years, doubling its size. Across these years, the Worrell family dealt with war in the transatlantic world, emancipation of the enslaved peoples who worked their sugar plantations, and demands for an escheat of large landholdings on the Island. This article considers the Worrells’ decision to invest in PEI within that broader context. La relation d’un demi-siècle entre la famille Worrell et l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard s’amorça en 1803, lorsque Jonathan Worrell, propriétaire d’une plantation en Barbade qui vivait en Angleterre, fit l’acquisition de 47 000 acres de terre dans le comté de Kings. Charles, le fils de Jonathan, vint s’installer à l’Île et administra le domaine durant plus de 40 ans, doublant sa superficie. Au cours des années, la famille dut faire face à la guerre dans le monde transatlantique, à l’émancipation des esclaves qui travaillaient dans ses plantations de canne à sucre et aux demandes en faveur d’un escheat (une confiscation) de grandes propriétés foncières dans l’Île. Cet article examine la décision de Worrell d’investir à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard dans cette perspective élargie. Article in Journal/Newspaper Esclave* Prince Edward Island University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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The Worrell family’s half century of connection with Prince Edward Island began in 1803, when Jonathan Worrell, a Barbadian plantation owner living in England, purchased 47,000 acres of land in Kings County. Jonathan’s son, Charles, moved to the Island and managed the estate for more than 40 years, doubling its size. Across these years, the Worrell family dealt with war in the transatlantic world, emancipation of the enslaved peoples who worked their sugar plantations, and demands for an escheat of large landholdings on the Island. This article considers the Worrells’ decision to invest in PEI within that broader context. La relation d’un demi-siècle entre la famille Worrell et l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard s’amorça en 1803, lorsque Jonathan Worrell, propriétaire d’une plantation en Barbade qui vivait en Angleterre, fit l’acquisition de 47 000 acres de terre dans le comté de Kings. Charles, le fils de Jonathan, vint s’installer à l’Île et administra le domaine durant plus de 40 ans, doublant sa superficie. Au cours des années, la famille dut faire face à la guerre dans le monde transatlantique, à l’émancipation des esclaves qui travaillaient dans ses plantations de canne à sucre et aux demandes en faveur d’un escheat (une confiscation) de grandes propriétés foncières dans l’Île. Cet article examine la décision de Worrell d’investir à l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard dans cette perspective élargie. |
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