Ralph Skelton

Second wave purchaser of land in Tobago, appearing by c. 1773 as the owner of North East division (St John parish) Lot No. 37 (100 acres) and Lot No. 44 (again 100 acres), both of which had originally been granted to Edward Hawkins (q.v.) 05/06/1770 and 15/05/1771 respectively. Probably but not certainly the Ralph Skelton 'of Yorkshire Hall, Demerara', who died on passage to England in 1801.

'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. 48-49; Leeds Intelligencer 28/09/1801.