Richmond

Estate Details


Associated People (3)

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
12/05/1766 [SD] - 1768 [EY] → Owner
1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£5,213 10S 5D

Notes

Great River division (St Mary parish) Lots nos. 5 & 6 which came together to form Richmond were purchased on 12/05/1766 (given by Fowler as 12/05/1776) by Walter Pringle; by 1773 they were held by Gedney Clarke junior.


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) pp. 40-41.


Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot) 77(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

1819 registration by Robert Mitchell jun., Attorney for Earl Harewood, 26/01/1819.

 
T71/462 461-466
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 287(Tot) 148(F) 139(M)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

William Lang manager

 
T71/474 71
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot) 138(F) 134(M)  
[Name] Richmond  
 

William M. Alleyne manager

 
T71/481 69