UCL

Goldsborough

Tobago

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] - 1773 [EY] → Owner
Gedney Clarke junior

Originally Great River division Lot no. 1, purchased 12/05/1766 by John Haslen [sic, possibly Hasler] but by 1773 held by Gedney Clarke junior.

- 1806 [EY] → Owner
James Gordon of Tobago
Mortgage Holder
Daniel Henry Rucker

Shown in the will of James Gordon of Tobago as holding a mortgage of £9900 over the Goldsborough estate.

1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Owner
John Robley

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 54 (Goldsborough)
£4,475 19S 2D

Estate Information (4)

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1766
[Size] 500  
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 312(Tot) 141(F) 171(M)  
[Name] Goldsboro & Goodwood  
 

1819 Return made Hon. John Robley 30/01/1819. The subtotal in the text showed '141 males and one female as corrected per the affidavit of the Hon. John Robley 31/05/1819'. Several entries for the women show them excluded from work as a reward for fertility, e.g. 'Fanny, big [as opposed to little Fanny, who follows age 22] age 35 Creole, No work having six children.' Six is the lowest number, seven the highest.

 
T71/462 37-48
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 245(Tot) 141(F) 104(M)  
[Name] Goldsboro & Goodwood  
 

John Baker manager

 
T71/474 33
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 252(Tot) 148(F) 104(M)  
[Name] Goldsbro & Goodwood  
 

Adam Stephen manager

 
T71/481 31-32