UCL

Cove

Tobago | St Patrick

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
- 1775 [EY] → Owner
Walter Kennedy

Notes

  1. On 31st October 1775 by order of the proprietor Walter Kennedy, a sugar estate called Cove in St Patrick Tobago was to be sold at Garraways Coffee House,' together with 128 slaves, all seasoned, 10 mules and 10 head of horned cattle', together with a separate sale of 500 acres of woodlands in the Barbadoes Bay division. The estate, which was described by Lots no. 20 22 and 23, has not yet been identified in the compensation records.

  2. The original grantee for St Patrick Lot no. 20 was Archibald Kennedy; for Lot no. 22 Allen Camoren [sic] and for Lot no. 23 Archibald Kennedy again. No estate name was attributed at this time; nor does it appear on the list of estates in 1832 or in cultivation in 1862.

Sources

  1. London Gazette 11591 26/08/1775 p. 2.

  2. '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).