Hon. Frederick Corsar

Slave-owner on Grenada, early purchaser of land there, and marrying the widow of George Green, who in 1771 was shown as having the right of dower over an estate in St Patrick called Plaisance. He was acting or Lieutenant-Governor in 1771 and 1775 and President of HM Council in 1780.

Lot no. 22 (76 acres) purchased by Frederick Corsar which became with Lot no. 23 (76 acres) purchased by Charles Simpson (both on 19/04/1768) the Goodwood estate, together with Lot no. 9. '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. 40-41, 42-43, 44-45.