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Alexander Stevenson

Profile & Legacies Summary

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Biography

Purchaser of Barbados Bay (St George parish) Lots nos. 7 & 8 (which together with Lot no. 1 came to form the Hope estate) on Tobago 17/05/1765.

  1. Among the 28 resident signatories of 'A petition of the proprietors of Tobago to the Governor' 16/09/1767.

Sources

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); '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).

  1. The Historical Society of Trinidad and Tobago Publication no. 342, from CO 101/2.

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
20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
The Hope [ Tobago | St George ]

Purchaser of Barbados Bay (St George parish) Lots nos. 7 & 8 20/05/1765.