UCL

Lucy Vale

Tobago | St John

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee and Executor
Sir Samuel Stirling 6th Bart.

Role in 1834 inferred from similar structures and counterclaimants on Merchiston and Kings Bay estate in Tobago.

1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
John William Inness
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
Mary Inness
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
Dr. Ralph Buglass
1766 [SY] - → Joint owner
Archibald Scott

Tentative identification of the original grantee 'A. Scott' (with R. Buglass) under St John no. 29.

09/05/1769 [SD] - → Joint owner
Dr. Ralph Buglass

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 74 (Lucy Vale)
£968 18S 11D

Notes

Original purchasers were R. Buglass (given in Woodcock as 'R. Douglas') and A. Scott together under North-east division (St John parish) Lot no. 29 on (according to Fowler) 09/05/1769.; Present Possessor 'Mrs Junis' [sic]. The estate does not appear on the 1832 or 1862 lists but does appear in the compensation process, claimed by Sir Sam. Stirling of Glorat but awarded to the Inness family as mortgagees.

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. 48-49.

Estate Information (4)

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1769
[Size] 200  
 

  1. Purchased 09/05/1769 by R. Buglass and A. Scott.

  2. '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. 48-49.

1819
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot) 40(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Lucy Vale  
 

1819 registration by Robt. McKell manager 26/01/1819.

 
T71/462 507-510
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot) 37(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Lucy Vale  
 

Jas. Aitchison manager

 
T71/474 53
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot) 35(F) 35(M)  
[Name] Lucy Vale  
 

Ja. Aitchison attorney

 
T71/481 52