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Trois rivieres

Tobago | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
George Guise
- 1801 [EY] → Owner
Alexander Gordon of Tobago

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801.

1801 [SY] - → Owner
John Gordon 4th of Cluny

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801. PROB 11/1362/231.

1801 [SY] - → Owner
Alexander Gordon of Great Myless

Passed to John Gordon of Cluny and Alexander Gordon from their uncle Alexander Gordon the elder, whose will was proved 19/09/1801.

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 72 (Trois rivieres)
£3,080 7S 8D

Notes

  1. Original purchaser of North-east division (St John parish) Lots no. 2 (which became Trois Rivieres) and no. 3 (which became Spey Side) was Wm. Nash on 19/04/1768. By 1773 the owner of both Lots was shown as George Guise. In 1832 the Owner for both estates was given as 'J & A Gordon'. In 1862 Spey Side was in cultivation, and Trois Rivieres 'Now worked with Spey Side'; 'Present Possessor Walter Douglas' for both.

Sources

  1. '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. 46-47.

NB the first of these sources also shows a Trois Rivieres in St Paul, original purchaser John Guise, Present Possessor also shown as Walter Douglas.

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot) 94(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Trois Rivieres  
 

1819 registration by James Griffiths, manager 25/01/1819.

 
T71/462 511-517
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot) 101(F) 73(M)  
[Name] Trois Rivières  
 

Robert Scott manager

 
T71/474 79
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot) 102(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Trois Rivières  
 

Jno Macintyre attorney.

 
T71/481 78