Henry Fowke

Second wave purchaser of land in Tobago, appearing as the present proprietor of North-east division (St John parish) Lot no. 11 (300 acres) which had been purchased 19/04/1768 by A. Wilson and J. Hamilton and which became part of an estate called Bloody Bay.

1. Probably but not certainly the Henry Fowke merchant of London who appeared as the trustee and executor of William Whitaker of London c. 1763 appointing local attorneys in Barbados to enter upon Whitaker's 'plantations and negroes' and to receive all debts and all papers.

'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.

1. Vere Langford Oliver, Caribeanna Vol. II p. 285