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Burleigh Castle

Tobago | St Andrew

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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] → Joint owner
Patrick Maxwell of Grenada
19/05/1767 [SD] - → Joint owner
Michael Croker
- 1829 [LA] → Owner
John Crawfurd Balfour
1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
Barclay Farquharson

Barclay Farquharson and two partners bought three estates and enslaved people from John Balfour in 1799 for £120,000 but the transaction was quickly reversed and was later subject to suit in Chancery. Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery (1832).

1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
John Allen McPherson

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 23 (Burleigh Castle)
£1,892 2S 0D

Notes

  1. Original purchasers 19/05/1767 of what became Burleigh Castle under St Andrew nos. 6 & 7 (together with Spring Garden under St Andrew nos. 4 and 5) were J[ohn] Dumaresq and M[ichael] Croker; 'Present Possessor' c. 1866 of both was Edward Ellice. In 1832 the Owners of Spring Garden were 'Dev. of Balfour; the estate was 'Now worked with Burleigh Castle' in 1862.

  2. By 1773 the Present Proprietors were P.Maxwell and J. Balfour.

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. 56-57.

Estate Information (4)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 87(F) 82(M)  
[Name] Burleigh Castle  
 

Return made in the name of John Balfour but signed by A. MacGregor his attorney. As with other returns by MacGregor for John Balfour on Tobago, the return includes areas of supposed origin for many of the non-Creole enslaved people.

 
T71/462 334-340
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot) 82(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Burleigh Castle Estate  
 

Return made by A. Macgregor, Attorney, for John Balfour. Note that the previous number was given as 165 (Male: 80; Female 85). Increases (births) 2 male, 1 female; decreases (deaths) 10 males, 4 females.

 
T71/466 16
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 125(Tot) 69(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Burleigh Castle  
 

Fortiene Hoyde [sp?], manager

 
T71/474 9
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot) 63(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Burleigh Castle  
 

John Edward Ranken manager

 
T71/481 9