UCL

Charlotteville

Tobago | St John

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
09/05/1769 [SD] - 1773 [LA] → Joint owner
Edward Hawkins
- 1827 [EY] → Owner
Charles Gray
19/05/1769 [SD] - → Owner
Abram Markoe
1860 [EA] - 1860 [LA] → Owner
James Leith of Tobago

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 77A-F (Charlotteville)
£2,880 6S 7D

Notes

The original grantees of Charlotteville were Abram Markoe, E.Hawkins & J.Johnston and Alex. Stewart, under St John nos. 30, 31 and 32 respectively; 'Present Possessor' Jno. and Jas. Leith (St John no. 30), Unknown for St John nos. 31 and 32). In 1832 the owner was shown as 'Dev. of Gray'; 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] 173(Tot) 85(F) 88(M)  
[Name] Charlotteville  
 

1819 registration by Alexander Warrack manager 29/01/1819.

 
T71/462 536-542
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot) 76(F) 85(M)  
[Name] Charlotte Ville  
 

Chas. M. Macbean [Maclean?] [no capacity given]

 
T71/474 26
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot) 73(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Charlotte Ville [sic]  
 

Ja. Aitchison attorney

 
T71/481 24