William Desvignes

Resident in Tobago, claiming unsuccessfully for the compensation for the enslaved people on Mt Dillon. Apparently alive into the 1860s: no trace of his death has yet been found.

1. Clerk of the House of Assembly in the 1820s during the controversy with Sir Frederick Philips Robinson.

2. In correspondence from Tobago with Col. John Gordon of Cluny in 1854.

3. Shown as 'Present Possessor' of Craig Hall, Cartara [sic, for 'Castara'] Down and Mt Dillon c. 1862. The owner of Mt Dillon in 1832 was shown as 'Dev. of Devignes'.

1. Sir Frederick Philips Robinson, A statement of charges made by the House of Assembly of Tobago against Sir F. P. Robinson and his replies thereto (Paris, H. Fournier: 1830) pp. 89-91.

2. University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 'Gordon of Cluny Papers 1665-c. 1930', M3600/1/14/1/56.

3. '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).