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Friendsfield

Tobago | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
Owner
John Glanville

J. Glanville was shown as the Owner of Friendsfield in 1832 and claimed the compensation (unsuccessfully) as owner-in-fee.

20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
Henry Fisher
- 1834 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Griffith of New Place, Southampton

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 20 (Friendsfield)
£1,354 12S 0D

Notes

'Friendsfield or Belvidere' was originally granted under Barbados Bay (i.e. St George) nos. 3 & 4 (300 and 200 acres respectively) to Henry Fisher 20/05/1765; by 1773 the Present Proprietor for Lot no.3 was 'late M. Martindale' and for Lot no. 4 H. Fisher and J. Luke; 'Present Possessor [c. 1867] Heirs of Kitson.' In 1832 the Owner was J. Glanville; the estate was still in cultivation in 1832.

  1. Friendsfield [sic], Queens Bay division (i.e. St Paul parish) is reported by Quintanilla as having belonged to George Campbell, Alexander Bartlet and Roderick Williamson in 1773. This might be an error for Friendship, and refer to Queens Bay division (St Paul parish) Lots nos. 41 & 42, which were sold to Roderick Williamson 15/05/1771 and were shown under Campbell & Williamson in 1773.

Sources

  1. Mark Quintanilla, 'Mercantile connections in the Ceded Isles: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company', International Social Science Review 79.1 & 2 (2004), pp. 14-26; ibid p. 25 fn 44. The text gives 'Friendship' rather than 'Friendsfield'.

Estate Information (6)

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1765
[Name] Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 3 & 4  
[Size] 500  
 

Original purchaser of Barbados Bay (St George parish) Lots nos. 3 (300 acres) and 4 (200 acres) which became Friendsfield or Belvidere was Henry Fisher.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33
1771
[Name] Belvedere  
 

Mascall Martindale was shown as the proprietor of Belvedere [sic] in the 1771 'Survey of Tobago.'

 
CO 101/16 No. 7 25/06/1771
1773
[Name] Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 3 & 4  
[Size] 500  
 

Fowler shows the 'Present proprietor of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 3 as 'late M. Martindale' and Lot no. 4 as H. Fisher and J. Luke.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 65(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Friendsfield  
 

1819 registration made by Frances Boumin [sp?] manager, 29/01/1819.

 
T71/462 406-410
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot) 52(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Friendsfield  
 

J. Glanville [no capacity given]

 
T71/474 31
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 92(Tot) 45(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Friendsfield  
 

Thomas Phelps Manager

 
T71/481 29