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John Colby

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Shown as original purchaser in Tobago of Barbados Bay (St George parish) Lots nos. 33, 34 and 37, which became Studley Park. Conceivably an error for John Robley (q.v., under John Robley Senior), but 'John Colby' appears in both Fowler and Woodcock.


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); 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) pp. 34-35.

Associated Estates (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
Studley Park [ Tobago | St George ]

Originally granted to John Colby under St George nos. 33, 34 and 37; 'Present Possessor' Mary A. Brooke. In 1832 the owners were shown as 'heirs of Robley'; the estate was still in cultivation in 1862.