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Riseland

Tobago | St Andrew

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
1766 [SY] - 1800 [EY] → Joint owner
John Hamilton of Tobago

Original grantee under St Andrew no. 27 (with Muther, Donaldson and Duncan under St Andrew nos. 17 & 18).

1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Other
John Hamilton of Dover

Tenant-in-tail

1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee
Arthur Philip Hamilton

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 16 (Riseland)
£4,083 1S 7D

Notes

Original grantees of Riseland were John Hamilton under St Andrew no. 27 and Muther, Donaldson & Duncan under nos. 17 & 18; 'Present Possessors James Bowhill and Wm. Allen, purser. In 1832 the owner was shown as 'J. Hamilton'; the estate was in cultivation in 1862.

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).

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot) 133(F) 127(M)  
[Name] Riseland  
 

The return was made in the name of John Hamilton but was signed by Benjamin Alleyne 'acting attorney for John Hamilton', 01/01/1819.

 
T71/462 116-125
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot) 115(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Riseland  
 

Benjamin Alleyne attorney for Riceland estate

 
T71/474 69
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot) 113(F) 105(M)  
[Name] Riseland  
 

John Baird manager

 
T71/481 71