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Mesopotamia

Tobago | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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] - 1781 [EY] → Owner
William Blenman

  1. William Blenman was shown by Woodcock as original grantee of 'Messepotomia', although both Fowler and S.D. Smith show the purchaser as William's brother Timothy.

  2. William Blenman surrendered Mesopotamia estate in Tobago to Lascelles & Daling by a deed executed in 1781; the equity of redemption remained with Blenman until a futher deed drawn up in August 1784 was executed in September 1785.

20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
Timothy Blenman
1781 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Not known
Daniel Lascelles

The estate was surrendered to Lascelles & Daling in 1781, probably as mortgagees-in-possession, and the equity of redemption was extinguished in 1784-1785.

1781 [EA] - 1781 [LA] → Not known
William Daling

The estate was surrendered to Lascelles & Daling in 1781, probably as mortgagees-in-possession, and the equity of redemption was extinguished in 1784-1785. In 1780 William Daling had made over his right to the assets of the houses of Daniel Lascelles to Edward Lascelles.

Notes

Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 9 (500 acres) which became the Messepotamia [sic] estate was originally granted to Timothy Blenman according to Fowler, although Woodcock shows 'William Blenman'; by 1773 Fowler shows William Blenman as the Present Proprietor. c. 1867 'Present Possessor Earl of Harewood.' It does not appear in the 1832 list of Owners, the 1862 list of estates in cultivation, nor in the compensation records.

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); 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).

Estate Information (2)

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1765
[Name] Barbados Bay division Lot no. 9  
[Size] 500  
 

Timothy Blenman was the original purchaser of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 9 (500 acres) 20/05/1765.

 
Fowler pp. 32-33.
1771
[Name] Mesopotamia  
 

The 'State of Tobago' survey of 1771 shows Timothy Blenman as the proprietor of Mesopotamia estate, on which he had established or was establishing a cattle mill.

 
CO 101/16 No. 7 25/06/1771