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Concordia

Tobago | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1831 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Heir
Elizabeth Robertson, formerly Kenney (née Wightman)
19/03/1767 [SD] - 1767 [LA] → Joint owner
Samuel Clapham
- 1831 [EY] → Owner
Charles Wightman
1773 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Baker

The Thomas Baker who owned Concordia on Tobago in 1773 had been inferred by LBS to have been the same man as Thomas Baker the Attorney General of Grenada.

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 46 (Concordia)
£1,706 10S 1D

Notes

Barbados Bay (St George) Lots no. 16 and 24, which came to form Concordia, were granted to Samuel Clapham (Lot no. 16 200 acres 19/03/1767) and John Charlton (Lot no. 24 80 acres 09/05/1769). By 1773 Lot no. 14 was owned by Thomas Baker and Lot no. 24 (with Lots nos. 25 and 26) by Torquil MacVicar.

Sources

'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).

Estate Information (4)

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1767
[Name] Barbados Bay Lots nos. 16 and 24  
[Size] 200  
 

Barbados Bay (St George) Lots no. 16 and 24, which came to form Concordia, were granted to Samuel Clapham (Lot no. 16 200 acres 19/03/1767) and John Charlton (Lot no. 24 80 acres 09/05/1769). By 1773 Lot no. 16 was owned by Thomas Baker and Lot no. 24 (with Lots nos. 25 and 26) by Torquil MacVicar.

'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). ...

 
Fowler pp. 32-33, 34-35.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot) 74(F) 75(M)  
[Name] Concordia  
 

1819 Registration by Alexander Murray

 
T71/462 392-397
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot) 60(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Concordia  
 

Andrew Kenney attorney for Charles Wightman

 
T71/474 23
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 53(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Concordia  
 

John Grant manager

 
T71/481 22