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(i) Richard Booth of Glendon Hall, Northamptonshire, esquire, Sir Richard Neave of New Broad Street, London and Dagnam, Essex, baronet, Thomas Neave of New Broad Street, London and Dagnam, Essex, esquire; the surviving devisees in trust and executors of will of Sir Gillies Payne.
(ii) Peter Payne of Tempsford, esquire, Mary Payne of Tempsford, spinster, Hugh Perry Keane of Merryoak, Southampton, esquire, and wife Susan, Anne Payne of Tempsford spinster, Frances Sharpe of Tempsford, widow, George Sharpe of the Views, Huntingdonshire, esquire and wife Christian, said Richard Booth and wife Janet, Reverend Richard Palmer of Grantham, Lincolnshire clerk and wife Elizabeth, said Peter Payne as executor of Dame Maria Payne deceased.
(iii) Samuel Lawrence of the Island of Nevis, West Indies, esquire.
(iv) Henry Bengough and Robert Chaxton of Bristol, esquires.
(v) Arthur Palmer of Bristol, gentleman and Ralph Denn of Threadneedle Street, London, gentleman.
(vi) Butler Chaxton of Nevis, esquire, John Colhoun Mills of Nevis, esquire, Jedediah Kerrie and John Julius both of St. Kitts, esquires.
Recites:-
1 April 1788: Grant of Annuity of £500:
Sir Gillies Payne to John Payne esquire.
-- plantations, sugar works etc. in St. Kitts and Nevis, except Sandy Point plantation, in parish of St. Ann, Sandy Point, St. Kitts;
Marriage Settlement, 29, 30 May 1788:
(i) Sir John Payne.
(ii) Susan Campbell widow and daughter Elizabeth Maria, spinster.
(iii) Woollaston Pym clerk and Charles Brett esquire.
Will of Sir Gillies Payne, 14 February 1794:-
to wife Dame Margaret, Richard Booth, Sir Richard Neave and Thomas Neave, all estate in West Indies, St. Kitts and Flat Island, except Nevis to pay certain annuities.
Estates in West Indies have been sold to Samuel Lawrence by deeds of even date with this:
(i) Richard Booth, Richard and Thomas Neave.
(ii) Peter Payne
(iii) Robert Claxton
(iv) Samuel Lawrence
(v) Henry Bengough
(vi) Richard Neave of Lincolns Inn, esquire and Edward Protheroe of Bristol esquire
(vii) Butler Claxton, William Lawrence, Butler Claxton junior all of Nevis esquires.
-- plantation, sugar works, etc., called Lower Plantation, in parish of St. Thomas, Nevis, 188 acres land bounded north lands of late Walter Nisbet and James Smith, south lands formerly of Colhoun, and Williams, now of Beckfords, and lands late of News now of Samuel Lawrence, east by lands of late James Smith, formerly Charles Payne, west by the sea and lands of John Taylor and Washington.
An annuity of £400 mentioned in the Will by mistake to have been charged on Sandy Point Plantation, St. Kitts, does not encumber this estate.
-- all plantations etc., devised in will of Sir Gillies Payne to executors for 500 years, subject to payment of certain annuities.