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Anse Fourmi

Tobago | St John

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1773 [SY] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
James Campbell of Grenada and Tobago
09/05/1769 [SD] - → Joint owner
James Campbell of Grenada and Tobago

Notes

  1. Original purchasers of North-east division (St John parish) Lots nos. 5 and 6 on 09/05/1769 were Jas. and Dunc. Campbell. By 1773 the Present Proprietor of the estate was shown as James Campbell. It has not yet been traced in the compensation records nor was it on the 1832 or 1862 lists, although 'Present Possessor' was shown as Barclay Cunningham c. 1866.

  2. The estate is shown as in private hands in David Stanfield and Norman Davis (eds.) Land tenure and the management of land resources in Trinidad and Tobago, Part 1: Land Tenure (1993) LTC Research Paper 115, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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) [this source gives the estate as 'Arice Fourmi']; 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. 46-47.

Estate Information (1)

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1769
[Name] Anse Fourmi  
[Size] 500  
 

In Tobago, Jas. and Duncan Campbell were the original purchasers 09/05/1769 of: (a) Northeast division (St John parish) Lots nos. 5 (300 acres) and 6 (200 acres) (which together became Anse Fourmi), which by 1773 were held by James Campbell alone.

'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. 46-47.

 
Fowler, 'Summary Account' pp. 46-47