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Merchiston

Tobago | St Paul

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Trustee and Executor
Sir Samuel Stirling 6th Bart.
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Joint owner
James Campbell of Grenada and Tobago
- 1823 [EY] → Owner
Archibald Napier
1823 [SY] - → Other
Ann Napier (née Stirling)
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Manager
James Aitchison
1829 [EA] - 1829 [EY] → Attorney
James Aitchison

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 58 (Merchiston)
£2,576 12S 7D

Notes

  1. The original purchasers of Queens Bay division (St Paul parish) Lots nos. 35, 361/2 and 37, which became the Merchiston estate, were John Sharpe, Wm Young and John Sharpe; 'Present Possessors [i.e. c. 1866] heirs of Napier'. In 1832 the owner was shown as 'Mrs Napier'; by 1862 the estate was 'Abandoned'.

  2. c. 1773 Lots 35 and 37 were owned by James Campbell.

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).

  2. 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. 54 and 55.

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 201(Tot) 109(F) 92(M)  
[Name] Merchiston  
 

1819 registration made by Charles Warrack.

 
T71/462 499-506
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot) 83(F) 83(M)  
[Name] Merchiston  
 

Jas. Aitchison manager

 
T71/474 59
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot) 72(F) 72(M)  
[Name] Merchiston  
 

Ja Aitchison atty.

 
T71/481 58