Shirvan

The original grantees of Shirvan were Hugh Smith under Sandy Bay division (St Patrick parish) Lots nos. 17 (200 acres) and 18 (100 acres) 19/03/1767 and James Hamilton under Lot no. 32 (100 acres), also 19/03/1767. By 1773 the Present Proprietors of all 3 Lots were G. Campbell and W. Bruce. In 1832 the Owner was Sir M. Bruce; the estate was in cultivation in 1862; 'Present Possessor Heirs of Hunt'.

'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. 60-61, 62-63.