William Lucas of Grenada

Appointed Chief Justice of Grenada in 1783, and probably the same man as the William Lucas who was an early purchaser of land in Tobago. On Grenada, his estate at Mount George was bought out in 1784 to build fortifications.

1. William Lucas purchased 15/05/1771 Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 30 (200 acres); by 1773 the owner was shown as '___ Campbell': the Lot, together with no. 29, became Mount Dillon. In 1773, William Lucas was shown, however, as the owner of Lot no. 28 (100 acres), bought originally by William Hewitt 05/06/1770, which became Castara Down. William Lucas was also the original purchaser 19/04/1768 of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 32 (300 acres), which became Hilsbro Vale.

2. Oct. 15 [1787] At Grenada, [death of] the Hon. William Lucas, President of His Majesty's Council, and Commander in Chief in and over the island of Grenada etc. etc.

London Gazette 12485 18/10/1783 p. 5; The Grenada Handbook (1897) p. 68.

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. 36-37.

2. The Scots Magazine Vol. 49 (1787) p. 621.