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Mount Dillon

Tobago | St David

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
Heir
William Desvignes
05/06/1770 [SD] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
William Lucas of Grenada

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 43 (Mount Dillon)
£641 2S 10D

Notes

  1. The original grantees of Mount Dillon were Walter Fenner and Will. Lucas, under St David nos.29 and 30. The 'Present Possessor' was William Desvignes (given as Wm Devignes). In 1832 the owner was shown as 'Dev. of Devignes. The estate was still in cultivation in 1862.

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).

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot) 29(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Mount Dillon  
 

Return made by Charles Desvignes manager of Mt Dillon estate 31/01/1819.

 
T71/462 200-
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot) 26(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Mount Dillon  
 

Charles Desvignes [no capacity shown]

 
T71/474 55
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 22(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Mount Dillon  
 

C. Desvignes manager

 
T71/481 54