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Tobago
Lease and Release between John Raven Senior of Dunford, near Salisbury, son and heir, and surviving executor of Nassau Thomas Senior, heretofore of London and Bath, deceased, of the first part; Thomas Currie, late of Tobago, now of London, of the second part; and Hector Allen of Tobago of the third part.
Signed by T.R. Senior.
Witnesses: John Lewis Titchfield, G.C. Vincent.
Country: Tobago
Date: 26 September 1793, 27 September 1793
Description: Lease: 1 skin, parchment, 1 applied seal. Release: 11 skins, 1 applied seal.
On the dorse (back) of Release: a receipt for £4500 from Thomas Currie, signed by J.R. Senior. Both documents contain lists of slaves.
Estates mentioned: Tobago, Great River Divisions, Lots 10 and 20, Unity Plantation, Lochaber or Lowlands Plantation.
Also the sworn affidavit of George Charles Vincent before Sir James Landown, Lord Mayor of London.
All these documents are attached.
Two exemplifications of the lease
DM41/13/5-12
Tobago: Various plantations
Conveyance between Alexander Kincaid Johnston Canning MacKenzie of Middlesex, and Francis James Napier MacKenzie, formerly of Middlesex, at present in Florence, Italy, en-route for India, of the first part; Robert Hall MacKenzie of Cincinnati, U.S.A. of the second part; Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie of Edinburgh, of the third part; the said Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie and Christopher Douglas of Edinburgh, and Alexander Sholto Douglas of Edinburgh of the fourth part; the said Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie and John McCall, James McCall, and William McCall of Tobago of the fifth part; and the said John McCall of the sixth part...
Signed and sealed by all parties concerned.
Witnesses: John Meikle, Harry F. Birkbeck, Gennaro Joseph Placci, Charles Poncini, Robert Cockbum [Cockburn?] Smith, William Taylor, J.G. McCall, R.M. Clark, E.A. McGregor, D. McGillivray, James A. Clemmer, J.H. Clemmer.
Country: Tobago
Date: 12 December 1876
Description: 12 pages, parchment, 9 applied seals.
Attached: the sworn affidavits of various witnesses, before such people as James Falshaw, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London, G.W.C. Johnston, Mayor of Cincinnati, Dominic Ellis Coluaghi, H.M. Consul for North Italy. Other witnesses are William Webb Venn, junior, notary, Julian Pauncefote.
DM41/13/13
Tobago: Auchenskeoch Estate and Signal Hill
Declaration of Trust as to an undivided moiety between Alexander Marshall Gillespie, of London, West India merchant, of the first part; The Hon. John McCall of Tobago of the second part; and The Hon. James Henry Keens of Tobago of the third part.
Signed and sealed by all parties.
Witnesses: John Meikle, James Morris, P.M. MacKenzie, James McCall.
Country: Tobago
Date: 15 March 1871
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 3 applied seals.
DM41/13/14-15
Tobago: Burleigh Castle and Spring Garden Estates
Conveyance between William Ellice of Middlesex, of the one part; and Alexander Marshall Gillespie of London, of the other part.
Signed and sealed by both parties.
Witnesses: Robert Dixon, John Meikle, R.T. Cowlard.
Country: Tobago
Date: 24 December 1869
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 2 applied seals.
Also a receipt for £2000 from A.M. Gillespie to W. Ellice, signed by W. Ellice.
Attached: the sworn affidavit of John Meikle and Robert Dixon before Sills John Gibbons, Lord Mayor of London.
Recorded in the Registrar of Deeds Office, Tobago.
DM41/13/16
Tobago: Goldsborough, Goodwood, Richmond, Buchey Park, Glamorgan and Betsey's Hope Plantations.
Date: 22 July 1864
Declaration of Trust between The Hon. John McCall of Tobago, of the first part, and Patrick Mitchell Mackenzie of Tobago of the second part, and James McCall of Tobago of the third part.
Signed and sealed by all parties (P.M MacKenzie by his attorney John McCall).
Witnesses: James Keens, William McCall.
An acknowledgement by the parties concerned before Percy Blackwood, Registrar.
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 3 applied seals
DM41/13/17-20
Tobago: Goldsborough and Kings Bay Plantations
Conveyance between Alexander Kincaid Johnston Canning MacKenzie of Middlesex and Francis James Napier MacKenzie of Middlesex, of the first part; Robert Hall MacKenzie of Cincinnati, U.S.A. of the second part; Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie of Edinburgh of the third part; the said Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie and Christopher Douglas and Alexander Sholto Douglas of Edinburgh, of the fourth part; the said Alexander Kincaid MacKenzie and The Hon. John McCall of Tobago of the fifth part; and the said John McCall of the sixth part.
Signed and sealed by all the parties.
Witnesses: Harry F. Birkbeck, William Greig, J.H. Clemmer. James A. Clemmer, R. Forsyth, George Dacres McCulloch, D. McGillivray, J.A.P. Borchill.
Country: Tobago
Date: 9 August 1876
Description: 10 pages, parchment, 10 applied seals.
Attached: the sworn affidavits of George Dacres McCulloch, Harry Farrow Birkbeck, and James A. Clemmer before James Falshaw, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Robert Walter Carde, Locum Tenens Lord Mayor of London, and G.W.C. Johnston, Mayor of Cincinnati.
DM41/13/21
Tobago: King’s Bay Estate, parish of St. Paul
Declaration of Trust between The Hon. John McCall, of Tobago, Patrick Mitchell MacKenzie of Tobago, and James McCall of Tobago.
Signed and sealed by all the parties.
Witnesses: John McCall, William McKay, J. Goodridge Anderson.
Country: Tobago
Date: 16 March 1872
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 3 applied seals.
DM41/13/22
Tobago: Lowlands, Petit Trou and Tiviotdale Estates
Articles of agreement between Thomas Daniel and John Daniel of London, merchants, through their attorneys John Campbell and Collin Turner of Tobago and James Piggott of Tobago,concerning the debts of the late William Currie.
Signed by both parties.
Witness: Alexander Gordon.
Country: Tobago
Date: 7 September 1805
Description: 1 sheet, paper.
Copy
DM41/13/23-24
Tobago: Lowlands, Petit Trou and Tiviot Dale Estates
Lease and Release between James Piggott of Tobago of the one part; and Thomas Daniel and John Daniel of London, merchants, of the other part.
Lease: signed and sealed by James Piggott.
Release: signed and sealed by all the parties (Collin Turner and John Campbell, attorneys for T. and J. Daniel).
Witnesses: J.W. Smith, Alexander Gordon.
Country: Tobago
Date: 7 October 1805, 8 October 1805
Description: Lease: 4 sheets, paper, 2 applied seals. Release: 7 sheets, paper, 3 applied seals.
DM41/13/25
Tobago: Orange Hill and Amity Hope Estates, parish of St. David
Conveyance: James Fleming of the Middle Temple and Reginald John Cust of Lincoln’s Inn, Commissioners for sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies to William Ellice of Middlesex for £2200.
Signed by the Commissioners.
Country: Tobago
Date: 22 December 1869
Description: 1 skin, parchment, seal.
The document includes receipt for the money and a map of the Estate.
DM41/13/26-27
Tobago: Orange Hill and Amity Hope Estates, parish of St. David
Conveyance between William Ellice of Middlesex, of the one part; and Alexander Marshall Gillespie of London of the other part.
Signed by both parties.
Witnesses: Robert Dixon, John Meikle, R.T. Colward.
Country: Tobago
Date: 24 December 1869
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 2 applied seals.
Also a receipt for £2000 from A.M. Gillespie to W. Ellice, signed by W. Ellice.
Attached: the sworn affidavit of John Meikle and Robert Dixon before Sills John Gibbons, Lord Mayor of London.
DM41/13/28-30
Tobago: Prospect and Orange Valley Estates, parish of St. Patrick
Conveyance of Equity of redemption between John Alleyne Holder of Tobago, planter, now of London, and Henry Lowe Holder of Torquay, Devonshire, of the one part; and Alexander Marshall Gillespie of London, West India merchant of the other part.
Signed and sealed by all the parties.
Witnesses: James Morris, R.T. Colward, Charles John Follett of Exeter, James Townsend Trobridge.
Country: Tobago
Date: 31 October 1867
Description: 1 skin, parchment, 3 applied seals.
Attached: the sworn affidavits of James Morris, and Charle John Follett before William Fernley Allen, Lord Mayor of London, and John Treharne, Mayor of Exeter.
DM41/13/31-34
Tobago: Sherwood Park Plantation, Sandy Point Division
Transfer of a mortgage in trust for securing Bills of Exchange amounting to £5857.10.0 to Messrs. Thomas Daniel and Co. and after payment thereof in trust for Messrs. John Campbell, senior and Co.
Indenture between John Daniel and Thomas Daniel of London and Bristol, of the first part; John King late master of one of H.M. Ships of War, now of Tobago, of the second part; Alexander Campbell the elder, Alexander Campbell the younger, Colin Campbell, Mungo Nutter Campbell, Thomas Campbell, and James Campbell, of Glasgow, merchants, of the third part; and Joseph Kaye of London, of the fourth part...
Signed by the parties of the first and third parts.
Witnesses: Samuel Hill, P.C. Maxwell, S. Newman, Edward Rontree, Brooke Smith, Mortimer Maurice.
Country: Tobago
Date: 26 February 1817
Description: 10 skins, parchment, 10 applied seals.
Attached: the sworn affidavits of Stephen Newman, Patrick Calderwell Maxwell, and Mortimer Maurice, before Matthew Wood, Lord Mayor of London, James Black, Lord Provost of Glasgow, and John Haythorne, Mayor of Bristol, with the seals of the cities.
On the dorse (back): a note dated Bristol 1817, identifying the document as one shown to Mortimer Maurice...(signed) John Haythorne, Mayor.
DM41/13/35
Tobago
In the Common Pleas held before The Hon. Robert Paterson and The Hon. Charles Wightman.
Judgement for Thomas Daniel senior, Thomas Daniel junior, and John Daniel of London, merchants, represented by William Webb Glanville, against William Currie, represented by Elphinstone Piggott his attorney.
Then follows:
1. A statement that this is a true copy, signed by John Lewis, secretary and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas.
2. A statement certifying John Lewis’s title as secretary and clerk...signed by Donald Macdonald, Lieutenant-Governor of Tobago.
The statement was written by Donald Macdonald’s private secretary, Thomas Fraser.
Country: Tobago
Date: 10 August 1802
Description: 2 sheets, paper. |