UCL

Spey Side

Tobago | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
George Guise
- 1801 [EY] → Owner
Alexander Gordon of Tobago

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801.

1801 [SY] - → Owner
John Gordon 4th of Cluny

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801.

1801 [SY] - → Owner
Alexander Gordon of Great Myless

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801.

1860 [EA] - 1860 [LA] → Owner
James Leith of Tobago

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 75 (Spey Side)
£4,777 5S 1D

Notes

  1. Original purchaser of North-east division (St John Parish) Lot no. 3 (which became Spey Side) (with Lot no. 2 which became Trois Rivieres) was Wm. Nash on 19/04/1768. In 1773 George Guise was shown as the Present Proprietor of both Lots no. 2 and no. 3 (which became Spey Side). In 1832 the Owner for both estates was given as 'J & A Gordon'. In 1862 Spey Side was in cultivation, and Trois Rivieres 'Now worked with Spey Side'; 'Present Possessor Walter Douglas' for both.

Sources

  1. 'Tables showing the Lots in each Parish, numbered as originally granted - the original Grantee - the name of the Lot, or lots, if one has been acquired, and the present Possessor where there is one' and 'A Table, showing the Estates in cultivation in 1832, and their Owners, in 1832, copied from the list appended to Byres' map of that date, with those in cultivation in 1862', Henry Iles Woodcock, A History of Tobago (Ayr: Smith and Grant, 1867; new impression London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971); John Fowler, A summary account of the present flourishing state of the respectable colony of Tobago in the British West Indies illustrated with a map of the island and a plan of its settlement, agreeably to the sales by his Majesty’s Commissioners (London: A Grant, 1774) pp. 46-47.

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot) 118(F) 117(M)  
[Name] Spey Side  
 

1819 registration by Robert Scott, manager 25/01/1819.

 
T71/462 518-526
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 236(Tot) 130(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Spey Side  
 

Robert Scott manager

 
T71/474 77
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot) 131(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Spey Side  
 

Jno Macintyre attorney

 
T71/481 76