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Cinnamon Hill

Tobago | St George

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
19/03/1767 [SD] - 1767 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Clapham
- 1818 [LA] → Owner
John Reid of Falmouth and Tobago

Ordered to be sold in the will of John Reid of Falmouth and Tobago, made in 1818 and proved in 1819.

1819 [EA] - → Heir
Alexander Reid of Easter Elchies

Alexander Reid was heir for life under the will of his brother proved in 1819.

Notes

Not yet linked to the compensation records.

  1. Original grantee under Barbados Bay division (St George) Lot no. 5 was Samuel Clapham 19/03/1767. By 1773 the present proprietors was 'late John Birkmer'. It does not appear on the 1832 Byres' map or among the estates in cultivation in 1862, but the 'present possessor c. 1867 was shown as Jas. F. Jamieson.

Sources

  1. '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).

Estate Information (4)

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1767
[Name] Barbados Bay Lot No. 5  
[Size] 200  
 

Original grantee was Samuel Clapham 19/03/1767.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot) 39(F) 54(M)  
[Name] Cinnamon Hill  
 

1819 registration made by John Murdoch manager

 
T71/462 398-401
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot) 32(F) 38(M)  
[Name] Cinnamon Hill  
 

Wm Gordon attorney

 
T71/474 24
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 63(Tot) 28(F) 35(M)  
[Name] Cinnamon Hill  
 

Alex. Macpherson manager

 
T71/481 25