George Glover

No Dates


Biography

Early purchaser of land in Tobago, buying 05/06/1770 Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 31 (200 acres): by 1773, this Lot, together with Lot no. 32 (250 acres, originally purchased on the same date by Martha Glover, q.v.) were shown as 'late Glover.' Probably but not certainly the son of Martha Glover. Together with Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 36 (and possibly Barbados Bay division (St George parish Lots nos. 43 and 44), Lots nos. 31 and 32 came to form Runnemede.


Sources

'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. 36-37.


Associated Estates (1)

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
05/06/1770 [SD] - → Joint owner