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Orange Hill

Tobago | St David

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1829 [LA] → Owner
John Crawfurd Balfour
1766 [SY] - → Joint owner
James Hamilton

Original grantees for Orange Hill and Amity Hope as a combined grant were G & J Kearton, Thos. Gibbon and John & Anthy. Gibbon and Jas Hamilton, under St David nos. 4 (Keartons), 5 (Thos. Gibbon), 6 (John & Anthy Gibbon) and 7 (Hamilton).

1766 [EA] - → Joint owner
George Kearton

Original grantees for Orange Hill and Amity Hope as a combined grant were G & J Kearton, Thos. Gibbon and John & Anthy. Gibbon and Jas Hamilton, under St David nos. 4 (Keartons, on 16/05/1766), 5 (Thos. Gibbon), 6 (John & Anthy Gibbon) and 7 (Hamilton).

1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
Barclay Farquharson

Barclay Farquharson and two partners bought three estates and enslaved people from John Balfour in 1799 for £120,000 but the transaction was quickly reversed and was later subject to suit in Chancery. Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery (1832).

1799 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Joint owner
John Allen McPherson

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 29 (Orange Hill)
£2,880 6S 6D

Notes

Original grantees for Orange Hill and Amity Hope as a combined grant were G & J Kearton, Thos. Gibbon and John & Anthy. Gibbon and Jas Hamilton, under St David nos. 4 (Keartons), 5 (Thos. Gibbon), 6 (John & Anthy Gibbon) and 7 (Hamilton).

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).

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 235(Tot) 135(F) 100(M)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
 

Return made in the name of John Balfour Esq but signed by A. MacGregor attorney to John Balfour 28/01/1819. The return identifies 'country' within Africa for most (some are still simply 'African') of the non-creole enslaved, e.g. Soso, Ebo, Doe, Moko, Cormanty and so forth, as did the preceding return by A. MacGregor for John Balfour for the Amity Hope estate.

 
T71/462 319-327
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot) 110(F) 86(M)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
 

James Yeates manager

 
T71/474 64
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot) 103(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Orange Hill  
 

Peter Gunn manager

 
T71/481 63