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Bacolet

Tobago | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
Alexander John Alexander
- 1789 [EY] → Owner
Hon. Thomas Walpole

Sold by Walpole to Robert Mitchell, 01/07/1789

01/07/1789 [SD] - → Owner
Robert Mitchell senior
- 1801 [EY] → Owner
Alexander Gordon of Tobago

Passed from Alexander Gordon the elder to his nephews John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon under the former's will proved 19/09/1801.

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

Passed from Alexander Gordon the elder to his nephews John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon under the former's will proved 19/09/1801.

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

Passed from Alexander Gordon the elder to his nephews John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon under the former's will proved 19/09/1801.

20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
Robert Stewart

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 19 (Bacolet)
£4,625 7S 10D

Notes

  1. Original grantee of Bacolet was Rob. Stewart under Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 2 (500 acres) 20/05/1765; 'Present Possessor' Walter Douglas. In 1832 the Owner was shown as J & A Gordon; the estate was still in cultivation in 1862.

  2. By 1773, the Present Proprietor of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 2 was shown as Alex. John Alexander.

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).

  2. 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. 32-33.

Estate Information (4)

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1765
[Name] Barbados Bay Lot no. 2  
[Size] 500  
 

Robert Stewart was the original purchaser of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 2 20/05/1765.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot) 108(F) 122(M)  
[Name] Bacolet  
 

1819 registration by John McRobert 28/01/1819 [no characterisation of his role].

 
T71/462 411-419
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 209(Tot) 101(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Bacolet  
 

William Gordon, acting attorney. A note form Gordon explains that the return was late because of some confusion in his mind over the exchange of the 'the slave named James Campbell, mulatto, for a negro slave named Pitt put upon the estate in his place and since dead, and that he had wanted for instructions from the owners of the estate at home.'

 
T71/474 10 and 13
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot) 99(F) 101(M)  
[Name] Bacolet  
 

Alex. McPherson manager. The estate had had 17 deaths against 6 births.

 
T71/481 10-11