Inventories of Interest:

Jamaican Archives Series: 1B/11/3/--
Martha Delaroche: /130 f270 1808
William Maitland: /150 f188 1832-3
Ann Maitland:     /151 f45 1835-6
James Maitland:   /153 f75 1838-9
John Maitland:    /159 f36 1854-6
Andrew Wright M: /159 f123 1854-6
Francis Maitland; /142 f174 1826   (Mariand in Index)

Ruth Sinclair not found.
Nicholas Burton not found from 1778 on.

Reference to Robert Maitland Inventory /90/135 of St James, Millwright & Carpenter, dated 5/10/1798 Ent 12/3/1799

MAITLAND WILLS

also found under death duty reg:
Mary Ann Addison Maitland died 15/2/1903, Executor AW Maitland
Arthur Maitland, 26/7/1903, executor AW Maitland

JOHN MAITLAND - 1787

Jamaica Will ref: NO52, 1786, 74
also 125F193

(with thanks to Denny Swaby, 6/2005)

Jamaica George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King and of Jamaica Defender of the Faith To our Trusty and well beloved William Salmon and Robert Wilson of the parish of Saint Elizabeth Esquires Know ye that we have Constituted Authorized and Appointed and by these present do Constitute Authorize and Appoint ye or either of ye to Administer an Oath unto Edward Badnedge Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Heath or either of them or any other that are witness and can make Oath of the signing of the last Will and Testament of John Maitland late of the parish of Saint Elizabeth Merchant Deceased and thereof you or either of you and to make a due return under your or either of your hands and Seals unto our Lieut Govr Command in Chief or out said Island [added later - "or the Governor in Chief of the same for the time being with the power annexed so that such proceedings may be ordered therein as may be according to Law witnesses His Honor Aluid Clarcke Esq Present Governor and Comdr in Chief of our said Island"] of Saint Jago de la Begand the Twelfth day of December Annoyue Domini 1786 And in the 27th year of our Reign

Alurid Cl....?

Passed the Secretary's Office ) In Obedience to the within

Will Dunlop, Secy. ) Dedimus protestation I have Admi-

nistered unto the within named

Edward Badnedge such Oaths as is within Directed Given under my hand and Seal this Twenty fourth day of January Anno Domini 1787

Robert Wilson.

Maitland, John, proved January 1787.

Jamaica. John Maitland of the parish of St Elizabeth (in the County of Cornwall and Island of Jamaica Aforesaid Merchant and planter being Sick and weak of Body but of Sound and Disposing mind memory and understanding Do make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say It is my will that all my Just Debts and Funeral Expenses be in the first place fully paid and Satisfied I give and Bequeath unto Rebecca Wright of the parish County and Island Aforesaid a free Quadroon woman All that my negroe Man Slave named Jack To hold the said Slave named Jack unto her the said Rebecca Wright and to her Heirs and Assigns for ever All the Rest Residue and Remainder of my Estate both Real and personal or of what nature or kind forever the same now is or hereafter shall or may be or wheresoever Situate at the time of my Decease I Give Devise and Bequeath the same and every part thereof unto my Trusty and well beloved Friends Humphrey Colquhoun of the parish and County and Island aforesaid Esquire And Hyem Cohen of the same place merchants And to the survivor of them and to the heirs of such survivor from Trust and nevertheless and to the Intent and purpose that they do sell and Dispose of the same and every part and parcell thereof for such sum and sums of money or good and sufficient Securities and to such person and persons and in such manner either by privat or public sale as to them my said Trustes or the Survivors of them or the heirs of such Survivor shall Appear to be most Advantageous for the Benefit of my Estate and for that purpose good and sufficient Deeds Devices or Conveyances and Assurances in the Law to such purchaser or purchasers to Give and Execute make Seal and Deliver In Trust that they my said Trustees or

Jno Maitland

the Survivors of them or the Heirs of such Survivor Do in the first place pay and discharge with the Money therefrom Arising or which may otherwise be in their hands belonging to my Estate All my Just Debts and Funeral Expenses which being done It is then my will that they do as soon as Conveniently may be Remit to my Dear and honoured mother Sarah Maitland the Sum of Five hundred pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain to be paid her for her Sole use Benefit and Behalf and to be at her own Disposal And it is my Will that my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or the heir of such Survivor Do pay out of the proceeds of my said Estate unto Rebecca Wright hereinbefore mentioned and named the like sum of Five hundred pounds Sterling One Third thereof to be for her own sole use Benefit and Behalf One third thereof for the use Benefit and Behalf of her Son Francis and the remaining third part thereof for the Use Benefit and Behalf of her Son Richard And Whereas after the payment of my Debts and the aforesaid two Legacies of Five hundred pounds Sterling there may still remain or residuum of my Estate in the hands of my said Trustees unappropriated in Such Case It is then my will And I do hereby Order my said Trustees to pay unto my said Dearly Beloved Mother for her Sole use the One Moiety or equal half part of such residue of my said Estate and to pay over the other moiety or equal half part of such residue and remainder of my said Estate unto the said Rebecca Wright for the use of her the said Rebecca Wright and her two Sons Francis and Richard each to have one third part of the moiety of the Residuum of my said Estate in manner aforesaid and if either of the said children Francis and Richard should Depart this Life during his minority the part or portion herein and hereby Given and Bequeathed to him so Dying shall become the property of the Survivor or in Case of both their Deaths under Age then their and each

Jno Maitland

of their portions hereby Given shall become the Sole property of the said Rebecca Wright and to be at her Disposal AND LASTLY I do hereby nominate Constitute and Appoint the said Humphrey Colquhoun and Hyem Cohen Executors of this my last Will and Testament Hereby revoking and making void all former and other Will or Wills Codicil or codicils by em at any time heretofore made Declaring this prevents writing and this Only to be and Contain my last Will and Testament IN WITNESS whereof I the said John Maitland the Testator have to this my said Will set my hand and Affixed my Seal this Twenty Fifth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty Six Jno Maitland

Signed Sealed published and Declared by the said John Maitland the Testator in the presence of us who in his presence and in the presence of each other have at his request Subscribed our Named and Witness

Edwd Badnedge

Thomas Taylor

Benn Heath

JAMAICA IN OBEDIENCE to the within Dedimus protestatem Hereunto Annexed I have Administered an Oath unto Edward Badnedge of the parish of Saint Elizabeth in the Island aforesaid Gentleman who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God made Oath that he was present and did say? John Maitland the Testator in the within Instrument named being then of Sound Mind and Memory Sign Seal Publish and declare the said within written Instruments to be his last Will and Testament and that at the same time Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Heath were also present and together with him Subscribed their names as witnesses to the same in the presence of the said Testator and further that he knows nothing of any other will since made by the said Testator which may tend to the disadvantage of the Will within written.

Robert Wilson Extr

John Maitland - Inventory

1B/11/3/71f28

John Maitland, late of St Elizabeth, merchant
Inv by William Gauntlet & Andrew Myers of St E, merchants
Executors: Humphrey Colhoun & Hyem Cohen
Ent 20 May 1787

Inventory of all and singular goods and chattels rights and credits which were of Captain John Maitland of the parish aforesaid merchant and planter
Viz
Outstanding debts supposed to be good
James Robert Tomlinson bond on Judgment payable
1^st July 1786 principal                               500-00-0
James Robert Tomlinson bond payable
1^st July 1787 principal                               500-00-0
William Nills bond on judgment payable 1^st May 1785   63-00-0
Henry Campbells bond on judgement payable 1^st May 1785    50-00-0
A Vestry Order to Samuel Abrahams 1784               25-00-0
Edward Sinclair's note due 16 May 1786 Balce              7-16-1
Joseph Phillips note dated 7^th July 1781 @ 4 mos.         20-00-0
Joseph Phillips note dated 7^th July 1781 @ 3 mos.         7-15-0
Thomas Pights bond on judgment payable 1^st Jany 1785
2 bags of cotton has been paid in part             149-5-6
Hugh Williams bond on judgment off
George Netherwood's receipt                             80-00-0
Abraham Myers note to David Chatto                        8-00-0
Zachary Benjn Docherays order on Thos S Salmon       19-10-9
William Clark's bond due 1^st May 1785                 35-00-0
Jeremiah Bruce's note dated 13^th August 1781
Note it appears by the book that £6 is paid              18-00-0
John Ingalls bill of exchange on judgment for
£120 stg note this has been paid in part           160-00-0
Hyem Cohen's note for £166-16-0 Balnce due thereon   33-19-5 1/2
                                                     1693-14-9 1/2
Outstanding debts supposed to be Dubious
George Ruggles on judgment Balance                        102--4-9

John Mcklesh's order on John Watson                  26-00-0
Elizabeth Powell's bond on judgment                  121-4-2
Andrew Malcolm's Bond on judgment                    25-00-0
Andrew Malcolm's Bond on judgment                    60-00-0
Joseph Long's Bond on judgment                       22-06-3
William ?? Smythe's Bond on judgment                 105-00-0
William ?? Smythe's Bond on judgment                 102-00-0
                                                     617-15-2
                                                     2311-9-11 1/2
Outstanding Debts supposed to be bad

Daniel Campbell's bond Balance                       50-00-0
James Dearand's bond Balance                         12-00-5
Daniel Campbll's bond Balance                        100-00-0
George Brooks's receipt                              40-00-0
George Brooks's receipt                              8-00-0
Mathew Wilson's Bond                                 474-00-0
Munro Fleet & Coy's note in favour of Capt Payne     100-00-0
John McKendy's note                                  4-07-6

Sundry open accounts in a pocket ledger which are all disputable and therefore are not inserted in this Inventory but will be accounted for as received.
A bill loading for 26 1/4 Tons longwood and 3 tons of fustick? Ship'd by Jno Maitland on the Vigilant Capt Ausden consigned to order sold be Hyem Cohen to David Tieurtado for nett proceeds and for which Hyem Cohen is accountable
Cash in the hands of Hyem Cohen reced of John Stirling on account of Samuel Mure                                               770-00-0
Ditto received of John Angell                             40-00-0
Ditto in the hands of Rebecca Wright                      9-00-4
                                                          819-00-4

A parcel of hard timber laying of his land at Black River 10-00-0
A fowling piece                                           0-05-0
123 volumes of books @ 2/6                                15-07-6

A pair of small pistols                              1-10-0
A Priestly's Machine (Electric spark gene?)               2-00-0
A small sword silver mounted                         2-15-0
A Mahogany Celleret                                  4-00-0
2 German flutes                                      1-00-0
A parcel of wearing apparel with a pr of silver buckles   15-00-0
A parcel of boards                                   12-10-0
A Spy Glass                                          1-00-0
A box of Tools                                       1-10-0
A gun                                                2-00-0
                                                     76-17-6
Carried Forward                                      3207-15-91/2

9 Chairs                                             5-02-0
A Table                                              2-00-0
A Small Cart                                         2-00-0
                                                     9-00-0

A List of Negroes:
Johnny     40                       Sarah            60
Cesar      80                       Abla             20
Darby      80                       Pamilla          20
Mingo      55                       Jemima           15
Tom        80                                        1490

Quaco      70                       LO Marlborough   40
Duke       60                       LO Fortune       45
Benn       70                       LO Aqua          40
Roderick   50                       LO Mimba         45
Randem     70                                        1660
Julius     50                       LO Jenny         40
Eba Gingo 20                       LO Flora & child 50
Damon      45                       LO Phebe         40
Corridon   50                                        1790
Phenix     60                       Jack gave to
Camilla    60                       Rebecca Wright
Juliet     50                       by Will valued @ 70
Abigail                                              1860
& Child   75
Charlotte 60                       80 Sheep & Lambs 60
Rachael    40                       1 Goat           1
Eve        50                       2 Spanish Mules 40
Pastern    60                       2 Grey Mules     20
Jenny      60                       A Black Horse    15
Chloe      60                       A bay Mare and

                                  horse cott      15
5 Cows     )
4 Calves   )
2 Heifers )                 50
2 Bulls    )
1 Steer   )

Note the negroes marked LO are levied on as writt at the instance of Charles Forbs for which a Replerin?? is now out.

John Maitland Deeds

327/64 Joseph Ball to John Maitland
Ent 1/6/1784
Joseph Ball of Westmoreland, Gent conveyed to John Maitland, mariner of Jamaica.
£35 for parcel of land situate at Black River Bay, Butting and Bounding Northerly on the King's road 43 feet and East & West on land of John Campbell and Southerly on the sea.

Campbells are shown in 1755 as being just west of Black River on the sea. A sugar works is shown on Campbell's land.

336/130 1785
Between William Gale of St Elizabeth, esq conveyed to John Maitland mariner.
£100 for 75 acres called "Pond Side", bounded Westerly by the Great Pond, North, South and East on land patented in the name of John Banks in St Elizabeth

338/26 29 June 1785
Between John March of St Elizabeth Carpenter conveyed to John Maitland.
£300 for 100 acres bounded south by Humphrey Colquhoun, west by Lewis Robinson, North by Henry Lewis and East by Samuel Foster.
Plat attached did not show anything more.

Deeds in Jamaica, LOS 340/113, entered 26 January 1786:
John Maitland to Samuel Manley or Meanley (??? spelling)
Indenture made 26 June 1783 between John Maitland of St Elizabeth, mariner, and Samuel M. of St Elizabeth, Planter. From JM to SM In consideration of £81, parcel of land containing by estimate 54 1/2 acres lying in the Valle de Vache Savanna, Easterly & southerly on Waldish, northerly on the river called Bridge River and westerly on unsurveyed morass.
Maybe Valle de Vache Savannah was what was later called Bull Savannah near Milk River on the south coast?
(Thought to be in what is now Westmoreland, may be near Negril and the Carabita River).
Samuel Manley owed Hyem Cohen £18/10/- at HC's death.

FRANCIS MAITLAND 1

Prob 11/1694 f233A (copy 8/12/2003)

The original copy was difficult to read, but the main part of the will follows:

This is the last will and testament of Francis Maitland
…. I give devise and bequeath unto my wife Ann Maitland and her heirs for ever to and for her and their own use and benefit I make reinstate and appoint John Salmon Senior of St Elizabeth James Swaby of Manchester and my said wife Executors of this my will which I …. To be my last will and testament dated this 29th day of November 1823.

Witnessed Tho W Tayler, Jno Webb, William Powell.

Proved at London 4th January 1825 by oath of Ann Maitland.

No Inventory found in Jamaica.

Francis Maitland - Deeds

561/161
Ent 25 April 1809
Long Document detailing William Delaroche's will and subsequent mortgages by George Rolph, and necessity to sell to repay mortgages.
George Rolph of Thornbury Esq, Devised in Trust under the Will of William Delaroche of Great Britain esq by John Salmon of St Elizabeth his true and lawful attorney duly constituted and appointed of the one part John Delaroche of St Elizabeth esq residuary & Francis Maitland of the parish of Westmoreland a free man of colour gentleman.
Ref William Delaroche executor William Osborne and George Rolph for Giddy Hall about 950 acres and all slaves etc.
William Delaroche died 7 June 1800
Mortgage to George Rolph 1/4/1794 £2209-17-11d also 284-9-5 =2903-7-4
Became necessary to sell GH together with several negroes and other slaves.
£5000 Jamaican
Bought off George Rolph with title from John Delaroche. No direct info if conveyance included slaves.

Ann (Wright) Maitland - 1834

Supreme Court Wills 114/172 entered 22/5/1834.
"Ann Maitland of parish of St Elizabeth, county of Cornwall, but at present residing in Chester Place in the parish of St Mary Lambeth in the County of Surrey in the Kingdom of Great Britain, widow, I give and bequeath unto Wm. Wilson of London, Merchant and John Salmon of the parish of St Elizabeth, esq. all that my Plantation and Estate called Giddy Hall situated in St Elizabeth with slaves, cattle and stock, Plantation utensils and effects .. William Wilson & John Salmon ... Tehnat in common not joint tenants ..in Trust for all and every or such one or more of my sons Andrew Wright, John, Francis, George, Alexander, Septimus and Octavius and daughter Emma Rebecca living at my decease..."
Three pages follow about trustees duties etc.
A codicil dated 10 May 1826, (date as report, but prob of original will: Emma married 1832) London says:
" I revoke ... my appointment in said will of Wm Wilson of London as Executor and in his place appoint my son-in-law Samuel Sherman of the parish of St Elizabeth, planter. As soon as convenient after my decease ... - Giddy Hall and slaves cattle etc and other estate valued and ??? to be paid to my daughter Emma Rebecca Sherman or to her heirs one eighth part or equal moiety."

Ann Maitland - Inventory

FRANCIS MAITLAND 2

Will of Francis Maitland PROB 11/1988 F294 V16 sheet Nov 787
copied 28/4/97
By motion & decree:
PROVED at London the 17th Nov 1843 before the worshipful ????????? of Laws and Surrogate by the oaths of Harriet Mason widow the Relict? John Eden Esquire and Thomas (?????) the (younger?) Esquire the Exors to whom admon was granted having bea??? sworn oath to administer.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of "Francis Maitland" master mariner of the parish of Saint Elizabeth in Jamaica. I give bequeath and devise to my beloved wife Harriet Maitland and after her death to my children all my right title interest and share in the estate or penn called Giddy Hall in the parish of Saint Elizabeth in Jamaica and likewise my right title interest and share in the estate or penn of Mitcham and Silver Grove in the parish of (blank) Jamaica and I also give and bequeath to my said wife my (????????) and all my personal property whatsoever of which I (????) be possessed at the time of my decease and I (???) nominate and appoint my said wife Harriet Maitland of Exeter my Executrix together with a George Augustus Moore of Exeter and my brother John Maitland of Giddy Hall Jamaica to be Executors of this my will dated the thirteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty two = signed = Francis Maitland = signed sealed published and (????) as and for the last will and testament of the said Francis Maitland in the presence of us who in this (???) and in the presence of each other have hereto(?) to set our names as witnesses hereto on the day of the date above written = signed Elizabeth Cook and Tho Cooke, witnesses.
APPEARED PERSONALLY in the Goods(?) of Francis Maitland Thomas Cooke of ??51 Saint Pauls Square Liverpool in the County of Lancaster shipping clerk and made oath that he is one of the subscribed witnesses to the last will and testament of Francis Maitland late of the parish of Saint Elizabeth in the Island of Jamaica in the West Indies Master Mariner deceased hereto(?) (??????) ing date the thirteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and forty two and we further made oath that on the thirteenth day of February as aforesaid the said the said Testator duly executed his said will by signing his name at the foot or? (???) thereof in the presence of this servant and of Elizabeth Cook the other subscribed witness thereto both of whom were present at the same time and this servant and the said Elizabeth Cook therefore attested and (?????) the said will in the presence? of the said Testator the word "signed" appearing against the deceased signature and also against that of Elizabeth Cook having been written on the will previous to the execution thereof as aforesaid = Thomas Cooke = on the fifth day of June in 1843 the said Thomas Cooke was only sworn to the (???) hereof by virtue of the annexed? c?????ion = Before me Robert Davies M.A. Surrogate.
PROVED at London 17th Nov 1843 before the Judge by the Oath of Harriet Maitland widow the Relict one of the Executors to whom admon was granted having been first sworn (by ????) duly to adon't ???? ???? of making the ??? grant to George Augustus Moore and John Maitland the Brother the other Executors when? they shall apply for the ????.
Death Duty Reg IR27 266 f37 Taunton, 4 764 IR26 1651
Quotes: Estate or penn of Giddy Hall and Estate or penn of Mitcham and Silver Grove also chronometer watch money linen clothes and all personal possessions. No value or date of death given.

FRANCIS MAITLAND 3

(Copy from Probate Office 3/1999)

Francis Maitland of Holloway, 16/11/1901, executor AJ Maitland, also @ Liverpool.
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me FRANCIS MAITLAND of London in the County of Middlesex made this fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine I hereby revoke all wills by me at any time heretofore made I appoint my dear wife Mrs Annie Jane Maitland to be my EXECUTOR and direct that all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses shall be paid as soon as conveniently may be after my decease I give and bequeath unto my dear wife Mrs Annie Jane Maitland all my personal property and effect, for her sole use

- F MAITLAND - signed by the Testator
in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses - F MAITLAND 6 Yerbury Rd Merchant - E ASKEW 60 Regina Rd married.

ON the 1st day of February 1902 Probate of this will was granted to Annie Jane Maitland the sole Executrix.

ANNE JANE MAITLAND

(Copy from Probate Office 3/1999)
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me ANNE JANE MAITLAND of 5 Cumberland Terrace Finsbury Park in the county of Middlesex I hereby revoke all wills and testamentary instruments heretofore by me made I appoint Harriet Matilda Morrison of 12 Albany Road in the county of Middlesex to be the EXECUTOR of this my will I direct my executor to pay my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses I give and bequeath unto my dear children John Andrew Maitland Francis Maitland Edward William Maitland Nathaniel George Maitland and Harriet Matilda Morrison equally and jointly for their sole benefits all my personal property moneys and effects WlTNESS my hand this twentieth of July 1904 - ANNE JANE MAITLAND
-Signed by the above named testator as her last will in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in her presence & in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses - SOPHIE S DAY - 46 Dale Road N.W. Teaching - F. W. BENNETT - 122 Stroud Green Road N. Coal merchant
ON the 7th day of JULY 1922. Probate of this Will was granted to Harriet Matilda Morrison the sole Executrix.

SEPTIMUS MAITLAND

(Copy from Probate Office 3/1999)
Septimus Maitland, of Fenchurch St, 24/6/1902, @ Liverpool, executor JA Maitland.
THIS    IS   THE   LAST     WILL    AND     TESTAMENT of me SEPTIMUS MAITLAND of No 3 Manorway Blackheath in the county of Kent and No 9 Fenchurch Street in the city of London Wholesale Tea Dealer
I bequeath to my wife Julia Anne Maitland all my household furniture plate linen china glass books prints pictures consumable stores and other effects of a like nature for her own use and benefit absolutely
I also bequeath to my said wife the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to her as soon as possible after my decease
And as to all the residue of my estate and effects both real and personal I give devise and bequeath the same unto my said wife Julia Anne Maitland my son Francis John Maitland and my nephew John Andrew Maitland their heirs executors administrators and assigns Upon trust that they the said Julia Anne Maitland Francis John Maitland and John Andrew Maitland or the survivors or survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor their or his assigns (hereinafter referred to as my trustees or trustee) shall collect and convert into money such parts of my estate as shall not consist of ready money and as to my said real estate either by public auction or by private contract subject to any special or other conditions of sale and either in one or several lots with power to buy in the same or any part thereof at any auction and to rescind or vary any contract for sale without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby And shall out of the proceeds of my estate and my ready money (all of which are hereinafter referred to as my trust fund) in the first place pay my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and any legacy or legacies I may bequeath by this my Will or any codicil thereto And shall invest the sum of four thousand pounds part of the residue thereof in some or one of the stocks funds shares or securities hereinafter authorised with power to vary such securities from time to time at their discretion for others of a like nature and shall hold the stocks funds shares and securities which shall for the time being represent the said sum of four thousand pounds In trust to pay the dividends interest and annual income thereof as the same shall accrue and become payable to my said wife during her life and if she shall marry again for her separate use without power of anticipation And shall hold the residue of my trust fund and the income thereof And also after the decease of my said wife the said sum of four thousand pounds and the investments for the time being representing the same and the income thereof In trust for all and every my children or child who being sons or a son have attained or shall attain the age of twenty five years or being daughters or a daughter have attained or shall attain that age or he or have been married or who shall marry under that age in equal shares if more than one the shares of my daughters to be for their separate use respectively But if any of such children shall die in my lifetime leaving issue such issue shall take the share (as well original as accrued) which their his or her parent would have taken if living and if more than one in equal shares I direct my trustees or trustee in case any of my said children or the issue of any child who may die in my lifetime leaving issue shall at the time of my death being sons or a son be under the age of twenty one years or being daughters or a daughter be under that age and unmarried to invest in their his or her names or name the shares or share of such children or issue in some or one of the stocks funds shares or securities hereinafter authorised with power to vary such securities and during the suspense of absolute vesting to apply the income of such shares or share in or towards the maintenance education and support of the children child or issue presumptively entitled thereto I authorise my trustees or trustee to postpone for such period as they or he in their or his absolute and uncontrolled discretion shall think fit the realization of the whole or any part of my estate and effects but my unsold real estate and outstanding and unconverted personal estate and the rents and profits thereof shall be subject to the same trusts powers and directions as the proceeds thereof if the same had been sold and converted would be or have been subject I authorise and empower my trustees or trustee to invest my real and personal estate or the proceeds thereof in any of the public stocks or funds or Government securities of Great Britain or India or any Colony or Dependency of Great Britain or on mortgage of freehold copyhold or lease-hold estates in England or Wales such leaseholds being held for a term of which not less than fifty years shall he unexpired at the time of such investment or in the mortgages debentures or preference or guaranteed stocks or shares (fully paid up) of any Corporation Company or Public Body Municipal Commercial or otherwise in or having its principal office in Great Britain but not in any other mode of investment I devise and bequeath unto the said Julia Anne Maitland Francis John Maitland and John Andrew Maitland or the survivors or survivor of them their or his executors administrators and assigns All estates vested in me by way of trust or mortgage to be held by them and the survivor of them and the heirs executors and administrators of such survivor their or his assigns Upon the trusts and subject to the equities respectively affecting the same And I declare that the receipt of the acting trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will shall be a good and effectual discharge for all money which shall come to their or his hands by virtue of this my Will And that all persons paying any such monies and taking such receipt shall be exempted from all responsibility of seeing to the application there of And I declare that if any of the trustees hereinbefore named or any trustees or trustee to be hereinafter appointed shall die either in my lifetime or after my death or be unwilling or incompetent to accept or execute or be unwilling to continue to execute the trusts of this my Will then and so often as the same shall happen it shall be lawful for the acting trustees or trustee for the time being if any whether retiring from the office of trustee or not or if none such then for the executors or administrators of the last surviving or last acting trustee to substitute and appoint any person or persons to be a trustee or trustees under this my Will in whom alone or as the case may be jointly with any surviving or continuing trustees or trustee the trust premises shall be vested and he trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will shall both before and after such vesting be competent to exercise all the powers and discretions given to the trustees herein named And I exempt every trustee of this my Will from all liability from losses accruing without his own willful default And I authorise him to retain and allow to his co-trustees all expenses incidental to the trusteeship under this my Will I appoint my said wife Julia Anne Maitland my said son Francis John Maitland and my nephew John Andrew Maitland EXECUT0RS of this my Will and Guardians of my infant children during their minority And I hereby revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me IN WITNESS whereof I the said Septimus Maitland have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy six   -
SEPTIMUS MAITLAND   -    SIGNED by the said Septimus Maitland as and for his last Will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
   -    E R C0CK 9 Fenchurch Street
Tea Dealer   -    W MORRIS l7 Lowman Road Holloway N Clerk
ON the 21st day of July 1902 Probate of this Will was granted to Julia Anne Maitland and Francis John Maitland two of the Executors.

ANDREW WRIGHT MAITLAND - 1855 WILL

Will not found in Jamaica Indices

Andrew Wright Maitland - 1855 Inventory

JOHN MAITLAND - 1853

LOS 126F193
Woodstock June 4 1852
This is the last will and testament of John Maitland. I leave devise and bequeath to my wife Augusta Maitland all my property real and personal for her own use. Being about to cross the Atlantic with her for the benefit of my health and as in the possibility of events we may both be lost at sea, in this case I desire that the sum of £210 due to my brother Andrew Wright Maitland be paid when my bond becomes due after which the further sum of £700 be paid my Brother Septimus in three sums of £200 each and one of £100 in four yearly instalments after which I direct that the yearly proceeds of my three fourths share of giddy Hall be used for the payment of the Loan due by Woodstock pen in the parish of Westmoreland to the British Government. This done I leave the 3/4^th share of Giddy Hall to Ann Spence Caroline Spence and Elizabeth Spence sisters of my wife.
Sisters executors and Wm Spence when of age.
4 Aug 1853
5 Nov 1853:
Renunciation of Ann Spence and others any claim.

John Maitland - Inventory

JOHN ANDREW MAITLAND (Uncle JAM)

T H I S    I S     T H E   L A S T    W I L L    of me JOHN ANDREW MAITLAND, formerly of Cravenhurst Eastbourne Sussex but now of Little Friston near Eastbourne aforesaid and 22 York Terrace Regents Park and 66 Old Broad Street London Merchant
1.   I revoke all former wills and testamentary dispositions made by me.
     2.   I appoint my Son Francis James Maitland and Ernest Charles Johnston of New Mills Elgin in Scotland and Edgar Josiah Houle of 66 Old Broad Street aforesaid to be Executors and Trustees of this my will and they and the survivors and survivor of them or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will are hereinafter referred to as "my trustees".
     3.   I bequeath to each trustee for the time being of this my will other than my said son an annuity of twenty five pounds to commence in the case of the said Ernest Charles Johnston and Edgar Josiah Houle from my death and in the case of any future trustee from the date of his appointment and in the case of any trustee to continue whilst he shall perform the office of trustee hereof.
     4.   I bequeath to my dear wife Margaret Nicol Maitland the sum of ten thousand pounds and my leasehold house No 22 York Terrace Regents Park aforesaid together with all my furniture plate linen china glass books pictures prints musical instruments and all other articles of personal domestic or household use or ornament wines liquors and consumable stores and provisions and all my motor cars horses carriages harness saddlery and garage and stable furniture this legacy and bequest to be free of duty (if any) And I declare that my reason for making no further provision by this my will for my said wife is that she is otherwise amply provided for
     5.   I bequeath the following pecuniary legacies that is to say.-
     (1) To my niece Harriet Matilda Maitland the daughter of my brother Francis Maitland   the sum of one thousand pounds
     (2) my cousin Annie Maitland the daughter of my late uncle Septimus Maitland the sum of five hundred pounds
     (3) To Mrs Harriet Kemp of 84 St Georges Road Pimlico S W the sum of one thousand pounds
     (4) To my niece Helen Crosbie Anderson the sum of five hundred pounds
     (5) To each of my indoor and outdoor servants male and female who shall have been in my service for a continuous period of three years immediately prior to my decease and shall not be under notice to leave whether given or received the amount of fifty two weeks wages free of duty in addition to any moneys owing to them respectively by me at my death
     6.   I bequeath to my daughter Ethel during her life an annuity of seven hundred pounds free of legacy duty commencing from my death to be payable by equal quarterly payments and the first payment thereof to be made at the expiration of three calendar months from my death the said annuity in the event of my daughter marrying to be for her separate use without power of anticipation And I direct my trustees to appropriate in their names investments of any nature hereinafter authorized of an amount sufficient at the date of such appropriation to answer the said annuity out of the income thereof And I declare that such income shall be the primary fund for answering the said annuity and the capital of the said investments shall form the secondary fund for answering the same in the event of the income proving insufficient and further that after such appropriation shall have been made my residuary estate or the income thereof shall no longer be liable to provide for such annuity but may be appropriated and distributed forthwith And I direct that after the determination of the said annuity the fund so set apart and the unapplied income thereof shall be held in trust for Francis Pelham Maitland and Andrew Maitland the children of my son if and when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty two years in equal shares absolutely but if only one shall attain that age then the whole in trust for such one absolutely
     7.   I direct that my trustees shall set apart the sum of fifty thousand pounds or investments which they shall consider of equal value with power to transpose such investments and shall hold the same In Trust for all or any the children or child of my said son who shall be living at the decease of the survivor of myself and my said son and who being male attain the age of twenty two years before the expiration of twenty one years after the death of the survivor of myself and my said son or being female attain the age of twenty two years or marry before the expiration of such twenty one years or being male shall be living at and attain the age of twenty one years prior to or being female shall be living and attain that age or marry prior to the expiration of such twenty one years if more than one in equal shares And I direct that the income of the expectant shares of such respective children shall during the suspense of absolute vesting at the discretion of my trustees be applied either directly or indirectly by payment thereof to the parent or parents or guardian or guardians of such respective children without liability to see to the application thereof and the income or surplus income as the case may be shall be invested in manner hereinafter Authorized as an addition to the capital of the trust fund And in case there shall be no child of my said son who shall attain a vested interest under the trust aforesaid the said last mentioned legacy and the trust premises representing the same or so much thereof as shall not have been applied or disposed of under the trusts aforesaid shall sink into my said residuary estate And I declare that notwithstanding the aforesaid direction for accumulation each child of my said son who has attained the age of twenty one years and who if he or she had attained the age of twenty two years would be entitled to a share of the said trust fund under the trusts of this will shall be entitled to receive the whole income of his or her share until such share shall have become vested or he or she shall previously die
     8.   I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my trustees Upon trust that my trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and with and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the legacies bequeathed by this my will or any codicil hereto and the legacy duty on any legacies or annuities bequeathed free of duty And shall at the discretion of my trustees invest the residue of the said moneys (hereinafter referred to as "the residuary trust fund" in manner hereinafter mentioned)
     9.   I direct my trustees to pay the income of the residuary trust fund to my said son Francis James Maitland during his life
     10. Subject as aforesaid my trustees shall stand possessed of the residuary trust fund In trust for all or any the children or child of my said son who being male attain the age of twenty one years or being female attain that age or marry if more than one in equal shares
     11. I declare that my trustees may after the determination or failure of every prior life or other interest (if any) or previously thereto with the consent in writing of every person for the timebeing entitled to such prior interest at their discretion to raise any part or parts not exceeding together one moiety of the vested expectant or contingent share of any grandchild of mine under the trusts of this my will and apply the same for his or her advancement preferment or benefit as my trustees shall think fit
     12. I declare that my trustees may postpone the sale and conversion of any part of my real and personal estate hereinbefore devised and bequeathed to them in trust for sale including leaseholds or other property of a wasting nature for so long as they shall think fit and that the rents profits and income to accrue from and after my decease of and from such part of my estate as shall for the time being remain unsold and unconverted shall after payment thereout of all incidental expenses and outgoings be paid and applied to the person or persons and in the manner to whom and in which the income of the proceeds of such sale and conversion would for the time being be payable or applicable under this my will if such sale and conversion had been actually made
     13. I declare that all moneys liable to be invested under this my will may be invested in or upon any stocks funds or securities of or guaranteed by the government of the United Kingdom or of India or of any other British Possession or any Province or State of any British possession (including the stocks or securities of any railway or other company in India or elsewhere having a fixed rate of interest thereon guaranteed as aforesaid) or in stock of the Bank of England or the bonds or debentures or debenture stock or guaranteed or preference stock or shares of any railway or other company in Great Britain incorporated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter and paying a dividend on its ordinary stock or shares or upon temporary or fixed deposit at interest with any bank or banks or upon real or leasehold securities in England or Wales such leasehold securities being held for a term whereof sixty years at least shall be unexpired at the time of such investment And in addition to the ordinary indemnity given by law to trustees my trustees may dispense wholly or partially with the investigation or production of the lessors title as to leaseholds or otherwise accept less than a marketable title on lending money on the security of any hereditaments and shall not be liable for any loss occasioned thereby And my trustees may at any time release any part of the property comprised in any mortgage security upon being satisfied that the remaining property comprised therein is sufficient security for the money owing thereon And I declare that my trustees shall have full discretionary power to permit any part of my personal estate which shall at my decease consist of life annuities or other determinable interests or of mortgages stocks funds shares in public companies or securities including personal securities or any other species of investment yielding interest or income to retain in the same state of investment for such period or periods as my trustees shall think fit
     14. I authorize my trustees to appoint any persons or person to act as their attorneys or attorney or agents or agent for the purpose of selling converting collecting calling in and executing and perfecting assurances of or managing or cultivating any of my property real or personal which may be abroad or executing any of the trusts of my will in relation to any such property without being responsible for loss
     IN WITNESS whereof I have to each sheet of this my will contained in this and the two preceding sheets of paper set my hand this eighteenth day of February one thousand nine hundred and thirteen   -   J A MAITLAND     Signed by the above named John

Andrew Maitland as his last will and testament in the presence of us both being present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses

FRANK E HARVEY Clerk to Thorne & Co Limited 66 Old Broad St London EC
F J EVANS Clerk to Stephenson Harwood & Co Solicitors 1 Lombard

Street London E C
On the 6th day of February 1915 Probate of this will was granted to Francis James Maitland and Charles Ernest Johnston and Edgar Houle the executors.

BE IT KNOWN that John Andrew Maitland of Little Friston near Eastbourne the County of Sussex 22 York Terrace Regents Park and of 66 Old Broad Street in the City of London formerly of Cravenhurst Eastbourne aforesaid Died on the 17th December 1914 at 22 York Terrace.
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of the said deceased was proved and registered in the Principal Probate Registry of His Majesty's High Court of Justice, and that the administration of all the estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Francis James Maitland of Friston aforesaid Major HM Army son of deceased Charles Ernest Johnston (in the will called Ernest Charles Johnston) of New Mills Elgin North Britain Major HM Army and Edgar Josiah Houle of 66 Old Broad Street aforesaid Merchant the Executors named in the said will

Dated 6th February 1915
Gross Value of Estate: £220135-9-3
Net Value of Personal Estate £215348-9-2.
(Rescaled Hong Kong 30 April 1915 Resworn £220821-14-1d)

WRIGHT WILLS

Rebecca Wright - 1805

PROB 11 1428 F485
This is the last will and testament of me Rebecca Wright late of Black River in the Island of Jamaica but now of the city of Bristol in England.
I give devise and bequeath unto my nephews Alexander Cohen and Henry Cohen and my nieces Catherine Cohen and Caroline Cohen all those my negro slaves following that is to say Damsel and her two daughters Kinsey and Desdemona? Lavinia and her two daughters Silvia and Suzy Fanny Nancy Fanny Mary and Charles to hold said slaves and ---- and nony? Them together with the future issue offspring and increase of the females of the said slaves unto them the said Alexander Cohen Henry Cohen Catherine Cohen and Caroline Cohen their heirs executors admons and assigns for ever to equally to be divided between them share and share alike

I give devise and bequeath unto my son Francis Maitland all that piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the parish of Westmoreland in the said Island of Jamaica commonly called or known by the name of The Cove (cf inventory) containing by estimation two hundred and fourteen acres be the same more or less and all houses outhouses edifices erections and buildings thereon crafted and Built with all and singular the Rights ---bers h--diss (abrieviations) and appoint whatsoever to the said piece or parcel of land and premises belonging or in any wise appertaining to hold the same and every part and parcel thereof unto the said Francis Maitland his heirs and assigns for ever

I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Francis Maitland all that my capital messuage tenement or dwelling house situate on Black River Bay near the Black River and all that piece and parcel of land adjoining Lowerworks Estate on or near Black River aforesaid commonly called the Ground(?) with all houses outhouses edifices erections and buildings thereon crafted and built and also that my other messuage or tenement situate and lying behind the Church

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on Black River Bay aforesaid and also all those my other messuages or tenements situate in or near the Logwoods on Black River Bay aforesaid together with all and singular the Rights members?? S??dits and appoints whatsoever to the said capital messuage tenement or dwelling house piece or parcel of land messuages or tenements and premises or either of them belonging or in any way appertaining to hold the same and every part and parcel thereof unto the said Francis Maitland his heirs and assigns absolutely and for ever

I also give devise and bequeath unto my said son Francis Maitland all those negro and other slaves following that is to say Cibba, Flora, Amelia, Margaret, Grace, Tidma, Bess, Maria, Abigail, Eva, Abba, Cynthia, Crotia, Poggy, Marina, Venns, Juba, Charlotte, Fortune, Jane, Ameria, Robin, Sandtime, Joe, Jupiter, Johnson, Adam, Pompey, Sammy, Julius, Scipio, Budon, Nero, Ben, Tom, Daniel, Thomas, Frank, George, Random, Saffery, Nancy, George?, Biley, Tom, Christmas, Sophy, Charity, John, Caroline, and Cumberland, to hold the said slaves and ???? of them together with their future issue offspring and ??? of the females of the said slaves unto the said Francis Maitland his heirs and assigns for ever

all the rest residue and remainder of my messuages lands estates plantations houses? negroes goods chattels debts monies and securities for money money in the funds Bonds property effects and things of every sort and denomination whatsoever after payment of my just debts and funeral expenses I give devise and bequeath unto my said son Francis Maitland to hold the same and every part unto him his heirs and assigns for ever

I make nomination an appoint my said son Francis Maitland Andrew Wright of the said Island of Jamaica esquire Christopher Henbury? Of the city of Bristol in England Gentleman and Thomas Hogg of Jamaica aforesaid esquire executors of this my will I hereby revoke and make void all former and every former wills and will and so declare this only to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I the said Rebecca Wright the testatorix have hereunto set my hand and seal the fourteenth day of November in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and four.. Rebecca Wright signed sealed published and declared by the said Rebecca Wright the testatrix as and for ever last will and testament in the presence of us who in ??? presence at her ???? and in the presence of ?? other suborne our names as witnesses Henry Burnham Henry Hornsbyn Amelia Hornsby.

This will was proved at London the twenty eighth day of June in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and five before the Right Honourable Sir William Wynn Knight ??? of James Master Harper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury lawfully constituted by the said Francis Maitland the son of the deceased and Christopher Hornby esqs two of the executors named in the said will to whom administration was granted of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased having been first sworn by commission duly to administer power reserved of making like grant to Andrew Wright and Thomas Hogg esquires together as executors named in the said will when ever they ??? apply ?????

Rebecca Wright - Inventory

1B/11/3/105f96

Rebecca Wright, late of St Elizabeth and late of Kingdom of GB (widow in one place)
Inv James Miller and James Wade Merchants of St E
Shown by Thomas Hogg her Acting Exect.
Inv Date 7 September 1805, Ent 20 September 1805
(Nugent governor)

Elizabeth Lockhart judgement £140
Ditto for house rent £100 Estate of Hyem Cohen
balance due on judgment £580.9.2                            820-9-2
WK Hewitt for a Mule £40, Susannah Badnedge House Rent
£60.3.9, Joseph Jones ditto £50,
Mary Hughes for ditto £21.11.3,                             171-15-0
H Randall for House Rent £30.12.5,
Catherine Gale for ditto £43.7.0,
Sundry Household Utensils £156.11.3                     230-10-8

80 Negroes:
Thomas        150                Ben       150)
Leech         120                Grace     140)          900
Margaret & her 3 children, Caroline, James      )
& Charlotte                                240)

Abigail       160                Adam      180)
Candy         10                 Mary Ann 20 )
Diana         10                 Charles   160)          920
Acquar        180                Fortune   180)
Blandon       120                             )

Diamond       140                Robin     120)
George        140                Frank     120)
Scipio        180                Chester   140)          1340
Daniel        100                Cudjoi    120)_
Thomas        120           John Wright   160)

Nero          160                Marina    140)
Juba          90                 Cratia    70 )
Nelly         140                Phibba    140)          1380
Scinda        140                Jenny     140)
Charlotte     120                Eve       120)
Amelia        120                             )

Sophia        140           Creole Nancy 140)

Lucy 100 Satira 120)
Lavinia 120 Abba 140) 1140

Mary          140                Bessy     140)
Chamber Nancy 100                             )

Desdemona     140                Sammy     50)
Johnson       100                Joe       77)
Pompey        30                Jupiter   50)          590
Cumberland    20                Venus     50)
Cynthia       150                             )

Flora         50                Daniel    30)
Peggy         30                Jenny     7.5)
Julius        5                Patience   7.5)         405.1.3
Harry         80                Prince    80)
George        80                Christmas 50)

Quaco         30                Windsor   30)
John          30                Jack      50)
Eve           30                Rose      35)          325
Charity       35                Billy     35)
William       30                Jupiter   20)

Nash          10                Isaac     10)
Fanny         10                Quamina   10)          105-8-4
3 Horses £30                                  )
Sundry Furniture at the Cove               35.6.4)

                                           8328-05-01/2

Rebecca Wright Deeds

354/185 24 Jan 1788
Humphrey Colquhoun esq & Hyem Cohen merchant of St Elizabeth Trustees and Executors of the will of John Maitland dated 25 Oct 1786.
Summarises the Will.
.... paid in consideration of 335-10/- to executors before sealing (document) by Rebecca Wright of St Elizabeth, a free quadroon woman. Sell to Rebecca Wright 7 negro slaves Roderick Random, Sarah, Jemima, Eboe, George and Corridon, and rents issues hire labour and profits of the said slaves and also all the estate right little use trust interest possession property .. of John Maitland also future issue of female slaves.

JAMES COOPER WRIGHT

LOS 76 F158.
Date 28 April 1806, Ent 9 Aug 1806
Manumise female negro Ann Wright and my three mulatto children by her Sarah Wright William Wright Ann Wright.
Remainder to Dearly beloved sisters Sarah Tharp Petgrave Wright and Ann Wright, brother Ezekiel Wright

LEAH WRIGHT

LOS/93 f171
Dated 22/11/1812. Sound mind
Proved 13 May 1817
of St E, a free person of colour

To son David Cohen negroes Betty, Lewis, Molly and her three children Kitty and her three children, Old Diana and Old Cromwell
Also the house and all the furniture containing
Item I give to my son on horse, one mule, and 2 young fillies
I hope son will be joined in Holy Matrimony, if not and no issue, on his death estate to be sold and money to England to Benjamin Abraham's Brothers.
Executors John Weatherby and James Stewart.

ANDREW WRIGHT ESQ - 1806

PROB 1440 F444

Also LOS 76/162 - copy of PRO.

In the name of God Amen.

I Andrew Wright of the Parish of Saint Elizabeth in the County of Cornwall in the Island of Jamaica Esquire but now residing in Great Tower Street in London Do make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say)

whereas previous to my departure from the said Island of Jamaica I left directions with my son-in-law John Pusey Wint of Saint Elizabeth Esquire to purchase on my account six negro slaves now? in case the said John Pusey Wint shall have purchased the same previous to my decease I give devise and bequeath the same six slaves unto and to the ???? of the said John Pusey Wint his heirs executors administrators and assigns

I also give devise and bequeath unto my said son in law John Pusey Wint the following negro and other slaves vizr Charles Balthazar Holford? Nesta? Allixis Old Furney? Lucy and her child Sophia Grato Bella and her child Cubba Maria Davis and her two children ??? and ??? which slaves formerly purchased of Davisd Finlayson deputy Marshall ???? Scott and Ebony which last mentioned negroes I purchased from on Board Ship???? I ???? Phillis Grace and her child Anny which were formerly the property of Thomas Topham deceased with their future issue offspring and interest?? Of the said ???? slaves

And also such part of my estate and lands situate and being in the parish of Vere near Calabash Bay as is known by the name of Single Rock containing two hundred acres of thereabouts ???? the same unto and to the use of the said John Pusey Wint his heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever and

I give devise and bequeath unto my friends John Chambers of the Parish of Saint Elizabeth aforesaid esquire Jeremiah Snow of Broad St Ratcliffe Highway in the county of Middlesex hatter the said John Pusey Wint and James Cross of Southwark in the county of Surrey Gentleman their heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns ???? all ??? my pen and plantation situate in the said Parish of Saint Elizabeth called Mitcham with the slaves cattle ???? plantations utensils and effects thereupon being and thereunto belonging at the time of my decease and all other my lands tenements slaves and ????? and real estate in the said island of Jamaica or elsewhere (except such estates of which I am a trustee or mortgagee to hold the same and every part thereof unto and to the use of the said John Chambers Jeremiah Snow John Pusey Wint and James Cross their heirs executors administrators and assigns upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisions and directions hereinafter mentioned expressed and directed containing the same (that is to say) upon trust that they my trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivors shall and do by sale or mortgage of my said pen and plantation situate in the said parish of Saint Elizabeth called Mitcham and the slaves cattle stock Plantation utensils and effects being and thereunto belonging at the time of my decease or of a different part thereof raise and pay the sum of five thousand pounds of lawful money current in Jamaica but without interest unto the said John Pusey Wint his executors admons or assigns by five yearly installments of one thousand pounds each on the twenty fifth day of July in every year until the sum be paid and the first instalment to be paid on the twenty fifth day of July which shall first happen next after my decease and upon further trust they my said trustees their heirs executors admons or assigns shall and do by mortgage of my said last mentioned pen and plantation and premises in case my relation and cossin Andrew Wright Booth of the parish of Vere aforesaid esquire shall ??? to attain the age of twenty one years but otherwise raise the sum of one thousand pounds Jamaica currency and pay the sum to my said relation and cossin Andrew Wright Booth upon his attaining the age of twenty one years but without interest and upon this further trust that they my said trustees of the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do immediately after my decease enter into and take possession of as will my said before mentioned pen and plantation and premises as of all my other plantations estates slaves stores? Effects and premises so devised to them as aforesaid subject to such mortgages as may have been made thereof or of any part thereof under the trust and for

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the purposes aforesaid and shall and so cultivate manage and improve the said to the best advantage and consign the produce thereof from time to time to Great Britain to be sold and converted into money or otherwise sold and dispose of the same and shall and so apply a competent part of the monies to arise by the sale of such produce and consignment in paying and keeping down the said installments of the said sum of five thousand pounds and of such mortgage or mortgages of the same premises which shall be so made as aforesaid and also the payment of all taxes repairs and outgoings and in furnishing the same estates and ????? with necessary supplies and contingencies and upon further ?? that they my said trustees or the survivors or survivor of them or the heirs executors or admons of such survivor shall and so pay apply and dispose of the residue of the monies to arise from the sale of such product and consignments as aforesaid in manner following (that is to say) in trust to pay thereout an annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds sterling English money unto my dear wife Elizabeth Mary Wright and her assigs for life subject to the proviso or condition hereinafter contained ????? the sume be four equal quarterly payments on the twenty fifth day of December the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth day of June and the twenty ninth day of Septr in each year and the first payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said quarterly days of payment as shall first happen next after my decease the same payments to be made and written to my said wife either in the Island of Jamaica aforesaid or in Great Britain as she shall think proper free from the J???? or property tax and all other taxes charges and deductions whatsoever already taxed charged or imposed or ????? upon the said annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds or upon my said dear wife in respect thereof or for remittance? or otherwise ???? and in trust to pay and apply a competent part of the residue of the same monies to arise from the sale of the said produce and consignments aforesaid for the ???????? education and benefit of my reputed daughters Ann Wright and Rebecca Wright born of the body of Ruth Sinclair until such of my said daughters as shall be last living under the age of twenty one years and unmarried shall attain that age or be married or die which ever of the said last mentioned events shall first happen and

I devise and direct that the residue of the monies to arise from

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From the produce of my said estate shall subject to the several payment and deductions during and until such of my said reputed daughters as shall be last living under the said age of twenty one years and unmarried shall attain that age or be married or die which ever of the said last mentioned events shall first happen be added to and form a part of the residue of my personal estate hereinafter bequeathed to my said trustees and shall be applicable to the same purposes as are herein before declared concerning such residue Of my said residual estate and subject to the trusts aforesaid I depose and direct that my said trustees and the survivors and survivor of them and the heirs executors and administrators of such survivor shall stand and be siezed and possessed of and interested in all and singular my said plantation estate slaves stock and premises so devised to them as aforesaid upon and for the Trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the benefits provided and declarations hereinafter mentioned and devised? concerning the same or as thereto as the nature and quantity of the same plantations estates slaves stocks and premises will respectively admit of at ???? or in equity (that is to say) did to for and concerning? undivided moiety or half part thereof the whole into two equal parts to be divided in Trust for the said Ann Wright and her assigns and during the term of her natural life and to the intent that she and they may hold and enjoy the same without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease in trust for all and every child and children of the said Ann Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs or her respective bodies of all and every such child and children as to the ????? or shares surviving

Sidenote addition:
And in case there shall be a failure of issue of any or more of them than or occurring to such last mentioned child or children and his her or their issue in trust for all and every other the child or children of the said Ann Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of their respective bodies issuing and if all such children except out shall die without issue or there shall be but one child in trust for such one child and the heirs of his or her body issuing and for disbult?? of such issue in

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trust for the said Rebecca Wright and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life and to the intent that she and they may hold and enjoy the same without impeachmentment of waste and from and after her decease in trust for all and every the child and children of the said Rebecca Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of the respective bodies of all and every such child and children issuing and in case there shall be a failure of the issue of any one or more of them then as well as to the original share or shares as to the share?? shares surviving or ?????? to such last mentioned child or children or his her or their issue in trust for all and every other the child and children of the said Rebecca Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them (if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of their respective bodies issuing and if all such children except out shall die without issue or there shall be but one such child in trust for such one or only child and the issue of his or her body issuing

and for default? of such issue in trust for the said John Pusey Wint and Andrew Wright Booth in equal shares as tenants in common and for their respective heirs executors administrators and assigns and as them to for and containing all that the remaining moiety or half part the whole into two equal parts to be divided of and in the said last mentioned plantation estates slaves stock and premises respectively in trust for the said Rebecca Wright and her assigns during her natural life and to the intent that she may hold and enjoy the same without impeachment of waste and from and after her decease in trust for all and every tho? Child and children of the said Rebecca Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of the respective bodies of all and every the child and children issuing and in case there shall be a failure of issue of any one or more of them ????? as well as to the original one or thare? share or shares as the share or shares surviving or occurring to such last mentioned child or children or his her or their issue in trust for all and every other child or children of

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The said Rebecca Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of their respective bodies issuing and if all such children except out shall die without issue or there shall be but one such child in trust for such one or only child The heirs of his or her body issuing and for default of such issue in trust for the said Ann Wright and her assigns for the term of her natural life and to the intent that she and they may hold and enjoy the same without impeachmentment of waste and from and after her decease in trust for all and every the child and children of the said Ann Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of the respective bodies of all and every such child and children issuing and in case there shall be a failure of the issue of any one or more of them then

as well as to the original share or shares as to the share?? shares surviving or occurring to such last mentioned child or children or his her or their issue in trust for all and every other the child and children of the said Ann Wright lawfully to be begotten to be divided between or amongst them (if more than one in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for the heirs of their respective bodies issuing and if all such children except out shall die without issue or there shall be but one such child in trust for such one or only child and the heir of his or her body issuing and for default? of such issue in trust for the said John Pusey Wint and Andrew Wright Booth in equal shares as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and for their respective heirs executors administrators and assigns for ever and to or for up? Other? Trust intent or purposes whatsoever provided always and I hereby declare that the said annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds is so given to my said wife for her life as aforesaid with full ?? her? and? satisfaction? ???? ??? thirds?? Or other estate or ?????? she shall or may have on Demand

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out of my Real or personal estates or any part or parts thereof save and except the said annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds hereby given to her and upon condition that she do release all such claims and demands on request being made to her for that purpose and in case my said wife shall refuse to accept the same annuity in satisfaction of all such claims as aforesaid and shall neglect or refuse to sign and ???? such release or respective releases of her said claims aforesaid and of every of them to the respective Devisees and trustees of my said real and personal estate or to their respective heirs executors administrators or assigns or to any of them or shall be in that behalf divided required such release or respective releases to be prepared at the costs and charges of the persons requiring the same then and in either? Of the said cases I declare and direct that the said annuity or yearly sum of three hundred pounds so given to my said wife as aforesaid shall cease and be no longer paid and shall thenceforth sink into the fund out of which the same is made payable for the benefit of the persons for the time being entitled thereto

And in case my said dear wife Elizabeth Mary Wright shall after my decease depart from the Island of Jamaica for the purpose of residing in Great Britain but not otherwise I give and bequeath to her the sum of three hundred pounds for her own use to be paid to her at her departure from the said island of Jamaica but without interest

I also give and bequeath unto the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and the said James Cross the sum of one hundred pounds each Jamaica currency to be paid or retained ?? them out of the funds next hereinafter mentioned immediately upon my decease as a mark of my friendship and regard for them and I give and bequeath all the rest and residue of my monies goods chattels and personal estate not hereinbefore disposed of unto the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross their executors administrators and assigns

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Upon trust that they and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors and administrators of such survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease sill get in and convert the whole thereof into money and shall and do thereof in the first place pay and satisfy my just debts funeral expense and the legacies hereinbefore by me given to my said trustees in the next place?? And also shall and do apply the residue after said outgoings to arise and be made from my said personal estate so far as the same will extend in the payment satisfaction and discharge of the said sum of five thousand pounds hereinbefore directed to be raised and paid out of my said real estates and premises hereinbefore devised to my said trustees and after the payment thereof to and shall stand possessed of the overplus of such monies if any upon the same or the like trusts intents and purposes and under and subject to the same or the like powers providoes declarations and agreements as are hereinbefore mentioned expressed and declared containing the said plantations estates slaves stocks and premises last hereinbefore devised to the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively upon the trusts aforesaid or as near thereto as the death of parties and other contingencies and the rules of law and equity will admit of provided always and I hereby declare that if any of the persons who by virtue of the trusts and limitations aforesaid shall become entitled to an estate saie?? In my said real estates and premises lastly hereinbefore devised under the trusts ad limitations hereinbefore contained shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years without surviving issue of his or her body living at his or her decease or born afterwards then and so after as the same shall happen within the period allowed by law for exeintory devised to take place such person shall be considered as not having acquired a vested interest in the chatels and residue of the said personal estate hereinbefore given and bequeathed the same shall go over to the next taker of my said last mentioned real estates and premises under and according to the trusts and limitations hereinbefore contained subject also to this proviso provided always and I do hereby also

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Direct and declare that in case the said Ann Wright and Rebecca Wright or either of them shall at any time or times after my decease without the previous consent in writing of the trustees or trustee being of this my will return or come into the said island of Jamaica single and without having been married then and in such case ?? will the original as any accruing?? Share of them or her so returning single and without having been married or without such previous consent in writing of the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will of and in my said real and personal estate hereinbefore devised and bequeathed respectively for their benefit as aforesaid shall be in trust for and shall go over to such person or persons as would by virtue of the trusts and limitations hereinbefore contained be entitled to such shares of my said real and personal estate respectively in case they the said Ann Wright and Rebecca Wright or such of them as shall so return as aforesaid were them virtually dead without issue of their or her bodies or body as aforesaid a? and so far as I am enabled so to do

I hereby nominate and appoint the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross and the survivors and survivor of them and the Guardian and Guardians of the persons and person of the said Anne Wright and Rebecca Wright until they respectively attain the age of twenty one years or be married which shall first happen and I give and devise unto and to the use of the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross their heirs and assigns all such estates as are vested in me by by way of mortgage the better to enable them to receive ????? and get in the monies thereby assigned for the purposes of this my will

I also give and devise unto and to the use of the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross their heirs and assigns

Addition:
All such estates are now vested in me as a ???? or any person or persons and ??? to ???? heirs and assigns

Upon the trusts affecting the same and I nominate and appoint the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross joint executors of this my last will and testament and I hereby declare and direct that the receipt and receipts of the said John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow

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and James Cross and their survivors and survivor of them and of the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor for all mortgage and other money hereinbefore directed to be raised or which shall become payable to them upon the trusts of this my will shall be a good and sufficient discharge to the person or persons as paying the same or any part thereof for so much money as shall be therein acknowledged to be received and that the person or persons to whom such receipt or receipts shall be given as aforesaid shall not be obliged to see to the application of such mortgage or other monies to be answerable or accountable for the misapplication or non application of the same or any part thereof or be liable to enquire ?? into the necessity of making such a mortgage or mortgages and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the trustees and trustee for the time being under this my will to divert retain to and reimburse themselves and himself respectively not only such costs charges and expenses as they or any of them shall respectively be put unto in and about the execution of the trusts hereinbefore contained? Or any of them out also the usual commission paid by them on the consignment of the product of my said real estates hereinbefore directed to be made as aforesaid and all agent and factors charges and that they my said trustee and the trustees and trustee for the time being under this my will and shall not be answerable for any loss which shall happen to the said trust estates St???? and premises or any part thereof so that he same do not happen through their wilful neglect or default and that they shall not be answerable or accountable for the acts deeds deceipts?? Neglects or defaults of each other but each of them for his own acts and receipts only

And I direct my said executors to devise to the said Ann Wright and Rebecca Wright respectively as soon as conveniently may be after my decease true copies of this my last will and testament to the intent that they may be fully acquainted with the contents thereof and particularly the clause prohibiting their return to Jamaica under the circumstances aforesaid and I do hereby revoke all my former wills in witness thereof I the Andrew Wright living?? To this my last will and testament contained in nine sheets of paper set my hand to the first eight sheets abd to this ninth and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six -

Andrew Wright

Signed sealed published and declared by the said Andrew Wright the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other here subscribed our names as witnesses thereto the words "Jeremiah Snow being ???? and the word "Mary" being ???? initialled?? On the sixth page before.

Signing: - David Davies Newington - Thos Turnbull Bermondsey - Cha Grant King Street Southwark.

IN WHICH DAY Appeared personally Charles Grant of King Street Southwark in the county of Surrey Gentleman and made oath that he knew and was acquainted with Andrew Wright Esquire late of the Parish of Saint Elizabeth in the county of Cornwall in the Island of Jamaica but of Great Tower Street in the city of London and is one of the subscribing witnesses to his last will and testament of the said deceased
The said will beginning thus "Jamaica, in the name of God Ahmen I Andrew Wright I Andrew Wright of the Parish of Saint Elizabeth in the County of Cornwall in the Island of Jamaica Esquire but now residing in Great Tower Street in London Do make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following (that is to say)"
Ending thus " in witness thereof I the Andrew Wright living?? To this my last will and testament contained in nine sheets of paper set my hand to the first eight sheets and to this ninth and last sheet thereof my hand and seal this twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six -" and thus substituted "Andrew Wright" and he further made oath that on the said twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and six - David Davies Thomas Turnbull and the deponent attended the deceased at Nesington in the county of Surrey for the purpose of becoming witnesses to his last will and testament and accordingly a certain writing contained in nine sheets of paper was ???? and there produced to them the said David Davies Thomas Turnbull and this deponent and the deceased did place? On the said twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and six being the date of the said will sit and ????? his name to each of the said nine sheets of paper in manner and form as same now appears thereon and did seal it publish and declare the same as and for his last will and testament in their presence that at the request of the said deceased they the said David Davies Thomas Turnbull and this deponent did severally sit and subscribe their names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the said deceased and of each other and the said deceased of his will did nominate constitute and appoint John Chambers John Pusey Wint Jeremiah Snow and James Cross esquires executors and the said original last will and testament of the said deceased bearing date beginning ending and subscribed as aforesaid being so produced and shewn to this deponent and he leaving carefully viewed and inspected the same saith that he names Chas Grant now appearing set and subscribed to the said will in the deponents own proper handwriting and subscription and he thereby ????? the said original will or writing so as aforesaid contained in nine sheets of paper and now produced to him as such to be the very paper writing which the said deceased did on the said twenty first day of January one thousand eight hundred and six sit and subscribe his name to and publish and declare to be and contain his last will and testament in the presence of the deponent and the said David Davies and Thomas Turnbull and lastly this deponent saith that at and during all and singular the premises predeposed the said deceased appeared to be and was as he verily and in his ???? believes of sound mind manner and understanding that he talked and discussed rationally and sensibly and as he verily believes well knew and understood what he then said and did and was capable of making his will and testament or of doing any other act that required thought judgement or reflection - Chas Grant = On the 4th month of 1806 the said Charles Grant was duly sworn to the truth of the aforesaid affidavit before Sir john Daubeny ??? -

This will was proved at London the fifth day of March in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and six before the worshipful Charles Coote Doctor of Law surrogate of the Right Honourable Sir William Wynne Knight also Doctor of Law Master ????? or Commissary o