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Belle Garden

Tobago | St Paul

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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] → Mortgage Holder
John Wood Nelson
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
Benjamin Adam
1766 [SY] - → Owner
Thomas Bridgwater
1819 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Hall of Tobago

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 62 (Belle Garden)
£1,525 14S 8D

Notes

Original grantee Thomas Bridgewater under St Paul no. 44; Present Possessor Nelson & Adam. In 1832 the Owners were 'heirs of Sam. Hall.'; the estate was still 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] 116(Tot) 48(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Bell Garden  
 

1819 registration by Samuel Hall owner of the above slaves 26/01/1819.

 
T71/462 467-471
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 82(Tot) 39(F) 43(M)  
[Name] Bell Garden  
 

John Kerr manager

 
T71/474 11
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot) 41(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Belle Garden  
 

John MacDonald manager

 
T71/481 12