For the next 200 years, Oracabessa functioned as a tiny agricultural community with its main crop, bananas, controlled by a small group of British landowners.

William Weddell (13 May 1736 - 30 April 1792) was a British landowner and politician.

William Windham (c. 1706 - 1789) was a British landowner and politician.

George Durant (20 November 1731 - 4 August 1780) was a British landowner.

William Windham (c. 1674 - 2 April 1730) was a British landowner and politician.

Robert Gordon (1786-1864) was a British landowner and politician.

As a tea planter, Gee was part of a highly influential group of British landowners very close to the highest levels of provincial power.

Andrew Archer (2 August 1659 - 31 December 1741) was a British landowner and politician.

In 1880 the 29 greatest British landowners possessed enormous estates.

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (1720-1791) was a British landowner, garden designer and artist.