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Name |
Robert Colhoun |
Gender |
Male |
Person ID |
I189987 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
28 Jul 2021 |
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Notes |
- Robert Colhoun had originally worked for the infamous plantation owner Colonel McDowall and had purchased enslaved Africans for their plantations from Glasgow's best-known slave trader, Richard Oswald. Sir James Maxwell's brother in law William McDowall Colhoun became a very successful merchant as, apart from St Kitts, he also managed a plantation on Nevis and owned the 430-acre Mount Pleasant sugar plantation on St Croix.
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