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Hampden

Tobago | St Andrew

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
1829 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
John Gordon of Newton
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
Sir Arthur Leary Pigott or Piggott
1823 [SY] - 1829 [EY] → Joint owner
John Hopton Forbes

Two indentures at University of California Irvine show John Hopton Forbes and Charles Kaye as purchasers of the Hampden estate and the enslaved people upon it from the Brodie family in 1823 and sellers of it and them to John Gordon of Newton in 1829.

1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Joint owner
Charles Kaye

Two indentures at University of California Irvine show John Hopton Forbes and Charles Kaye as purchasers of the Hampden estate and the enslaved people upon it from the Brodie family in 1823 and sellers of it and them to John Gordon of Newton in 1829.

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 13 (Hampden)
£1,892 1S 11D

Notes

  1. The original purchaser of Rockly Bay division (St Andrew parish) Lots no. 21 and 24, which became Hampden estate, was Geo Glover on 19/03/1767. By 1773 the Present Proprietor of the two lots was Arthur Leary Pigott. The owner in 1832 was shown as J. Gordon, and the compensation was awarded (we currently believe) to John Gordon of Newton. The Present Possessor c. 1866 was John and James Leith, but the estate was shown as out of cultivation in 1862.

  2. In 1823 it was apparently sold by Donald and Mary Brodie of Pole [?] in county Argyll to two London lawyers, Charles Kaye and John Hopton Forbes (q.v.), who in turn sold it in 1829 to John Gordon of Newton. It is unclear whether the London lawyers were acting in a principal capacity or as agents (e.g. trustees).

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).

  2. University of California, Irvine, 'Guide to the Indentures for the purchase of land and slaves belonging to Hampden plantation, parish of St Andrew, Tobago.' Collection number: MS-M048. The collection includes two sales: (1) in 1823 by Donald and Mary Brodie of Pole (?) in County Argyll, Scotland (sellers), and Charles Kaye of London and John Hopton Forbes of Ely place, Middlesex (buyers) (2) in 1829 Charles Kaye of Netherton County Devon, and John Hopton Forbes of Ely Place (sellers) and John Gordon of Newton by Old Rain, County Aberdeen (buyer) http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html accessed through the Online Archive of California, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2j49q25q/entire_text/ accessed 20/11/2013

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 56(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Hampden  
 

Return made 29/01/1819 by Hugh Brodie

 
T71/462 100-103
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 53(F) 53(M)  
[Name] Hampden  
 

Wm Gordon Attorney

 
T71/474 39
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 53(F) 49(M)  
[Name] Hampden  
 

G.H.Richardson manager

 
T71/481 38