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Providence

Tobago | St David

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1804 [SY] - → Owner
John Anderson of Tobago
1773 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Not known
Robert Scott Moncrieff

1/4 of 3/4 of the Providence plantation was conveyed to Robert Scott Moncrieff in 1773.

1773 [EA] - → Joint owner
John Walker of Edinburgh
1804 [EA] - 1804 [LA] → Not known
Rev. Thomas Davidson formerly Randall

Party to a deed of 1804 conveying the plantation [and the enslaved people attached to it], in an unknown capacity.

1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Previous owner
John Anderson of Tobago
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Not known
Crawford Davison the elder

Almsot certainly mortgage holder or mortgagee-in-possession

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 33 (Providence)
£2,159 12S 10D

Estate Information (5)

What is this?

1804
[Name] Providence  
 

Deed between the devisees of John Walker and John Anderson et al., 1804-05-05. Conveyance of the Providence Plantation on Tobago to a term of 1,000 years. Indenture of fifteen parchment sheets; fourteen seals of all parties.

Parties include Joanna Thomson, Andrew Hunter, Thomas Davidson (formerly Thomas Randall) of Edinburgh; James, Margaret, and Jane Walker of Edinburgh; John Anderson of Tobago; Christopher William Irvine of Bath; and many others.

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/2192407 [accessed 04/05/2020].

1819
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot) 70(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Return made by James Baird, executor and trustee of the last will and testament of John Anderson deceased, late proprietor of Providence estate, 29/01/1819.

 
T71/462 360-365
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 65(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Arch. Hutchison manager

 
T71/474 67
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Tobago Chancery case leading to the sale of Providence estate with 125 enslaved people, Davison, Simpson v M. Hutchinson, R. Anderson (the estate had belonged to John Anderson deceased).

 
London Gazette Issue No. 18586, 19/6/1829 p. 9
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 65(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Providence  
 

Richardson Alexander manager

 
T71/481 66