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Mount Grace

Tobago | St David

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
1766 [SY] - → Owner
Thomas Rainy

Notes

Not yet identified in the compensation records.

Original grantee of Lot no.26 Courland Bay division (St David parish) (which became the Mount Grace estate) was Thos. Rainey (possibly the Thomas Rainy of Dominica whose will was proved 1822) on19/04/1768; Present Possessor 'Mrs Douglas & Others.' In 1832 the Owner was given as 'Hrs [sic] Peggy Campbell.'; it was out of cultivation by 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 (4)

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1768
[Name] Courland Bay division Lot no.26  
[Size] 100  
 

The original grantee of Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no.26 (which became Mount Grace) was Thomas Rainey 19/04/1768.

 
Woodcock
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 58(Tot) 30(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Mount Grace  
 

Return made 31/10/1819 by John Macleod manager

 
T71/462 371-373
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot) 26(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Mount Grace  
 

Elizabeth Campbell [no capacity given]

 
T71/474 57
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 24(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Mount Grace  
 

Elizabeth Campbell [no capacity shown]

 
T71/481 56