Thomas Gibbon

With Anthony Gibbon, an early purchaser of land in Tobago: the two men were the original grantees 19/04/1768 of Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lots no 24 (100 acres) and 25 (120 acres), which became Arnos Vale and which they still held c. 1773.

1. Jan 2 1774 [Death of] Thomas Gibbon of the Island of Tobago.

'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. 36-37.

1. Town and Country Magazine Vol. 6 (1774) p. 223.