UCL

Widow's Lot

Tobago | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (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
1766 [SY] - → Owner
Charles Payne Sharpe

Notes

  1. Awarded to Charles Payne Sharp as original grantee under Barbados Bay divsion (St George parish) Lots nos. 28 (300 ares) and 29 (200 acres) 16/05/1766; by 1773 the two lots were held by Joseph Maynard. 'Present Possessor' c. 1867 was Robert Crooks for St George Lot no. 28, Unknown for Lot no. 29. Widow's Lot does not appear in the 1832 lists or in the compensation records.

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. 34-35.