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Arnos Vale

Tobago | St David

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
19/04/1768 [SD] - 1773 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Gibbon
1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
Francis William Nichol
1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Francis William Nichol
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Crawford Davison the elder

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 42 (Arnos Vale)
£3,839 12S 7D

Notes

On 19/04/1768, Courland Bay division [St David parish] Lots nos. 24 (100 acres) and 25 (120 acres) were purchased by Thos. & Anthony Gibbon. In 1773 the lots were still show against 'Thom. and Ant. Gibbon': they became Arnos Vale, present possessor 'Heirs of Kitson.'

'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.

Estate Information (4)

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1768
[Name] Arnoes [sic] Vale  
 

On 19/04/1768, Courland Bay division [St David parish] Lots nos. 24 (100 acres) and 25 (120 acres) were purchased by Thos. & Anthony Gibbon. In 1773 the lots were still show against 'Thom. and Ant. Gibbon': they became Arnos Vale, present possessor 'Heirs of Kitson.'

'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; Woodcock 'History' 'Parish of St David'
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot) 84(F) 91(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale  
 

Return made for Arnos Vale by Fran. Wm. Nicholl, owner

 
T71/462 188-194
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot) 122(F) 106(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale  
 

John Glanville trustee of the late F.W. Nichol

 
T71/474 6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 223(Tot) 126(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale  
 

Robert Rowan

 
T71/481 6