UCL

Culloden

Tobago | St David

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
05/06/1770 [SD] - 1786 [EY] → Owner
George Forbes

Original purchaser was George Forbes 05/06/1770 as Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 42. By 1773 the Present Proprietor(s) were shown as W. & G. Forbes.

1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Joint owner
William Forbes
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Judgement creditor
Walter Cockburn

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 40 (Culloden)
£1,441 7S 5D

Notes

Original purchaser was George Forbes 05/06/1770 as Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 42. By 1773 the Present Proprietor(s) were shown as W. & G. Forbes.

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] 123(Tot) 69(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Culloden  
 

Return made by William Grove attorney to Culloden 31/01/1819.

 
T71/462 195-199
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot) 54(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Culloden  
 

Wm. Grove part proprietor

 
T71/474 19
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot) 46(F) 35(M)  
[Name] Culloden  
 

Benjamin Alleyne attorney

 
T71/481 18