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Greenhill & Friendship

Tobago | St George

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
20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
Robert Wynne of St Vincent
1771 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Rt Hon. Dorothy Dowager Countess of Macclesfield (née Nesbitt)
1771 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Tipping
1773 [EA] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
Walter Kennedy

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 21 (Greenhill & Friendship)
£3,581 14S 7D

Notes

The original purchaser of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lots nos. 10 and 17 (200 and 300 acres respectively), which became Greenhill, was Robert Wynne (20/05/1765); the original purchaser of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lots nos. 18 and 9 was Samuel Martin (16/05/1766). By 1773, the owner of Lots nos. 10 and 17 was Walter Kennedy; of Lots nos 18 and 19 was Thomas Tipping. By 1832 the owner of Greenhill & Friendship was 'Wyllie & others'; its present possessor as a merged unit c. 1866 was 'Gillespie and others.'

Estate Information (6)

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1765
[Name] Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 10 and 17  
[Size] 500  
 

Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 10 and 17 purchased by Robert Wynne 20/05/1765.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1766
[Name] Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 18 & 19  
[Size] 500  
 

On 16/05/1766 Samuel Martin was the original purchaser of Barbados Bay division Lots nos. 18 (200 acres) and 19 (300 acres), which became Friendship (and which was later merged with Greenhill); it is not yet known if this original purchaser was either Samuel Martin of Antigua (1694/5-1776) or his son Samuel Martin MP (1714-1788). By 1773 the two lots belonged to Thomas Tipping (q.v.), probably of Barbados.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1771
[Name] Friendship  
 

The 'State of Tobago' survey shows Thomas Tipping as the proprietor of Friendship in Barbados Bay, on which he had established or was establishing a cattle mill.

 
CO 101/16 No. 7 25/06/1771
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot) 97(F) 107(M)  
[Name] Greenhill & Friendship  
 

1819 registration made by Saml S. Spears manager 29/01/1819

 
T71/462 435-442
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 95(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Greenhill & Friendship  
 

Wm Gordon Attorney

 
T71/474 38
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot) 92(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Greenhill & Friendship  
 

John Martin manager

 
T71/481