Lot 227
Tobago plantations - Manuscript Conveyance by John Walker, John Strachan and James Geddes of Edinburgh
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
Description
to Robert Scott Moncrieff Esq. of Edinburgh, of a fourth part of the three fourths part of the said Plantation [formerly known as Lot Number Ten, formerly belonging to Alexander Brown Esq. lately Lieutenant Governor of the said Island... now denominated Providence Plantation] lying in the said Courland Bay and Division of the said Island, "with all ways, waters, watercourses, paths, pasture, trees, woods, underwoods, profiles and commodities, emoluments, advantages, easments and hereditaments, negroes, cattle, stocking houses...", 1773, document on vellum, remains of red wax seals
Footnote
Note: Tobago's definite development as a plantation colony was initiated after the conclusion of the Seven Years War in 1763 when France ceded its claims to Britain. Alexander Brown was the first Lieutenant Governor.