BS683

Will of Sir Gillies Payne of Tempsford Hall, baronet. Many bequests [details given], trustees differ from BS 684.

30 Mar 1774

From: 1774 To: 1774

Details given: Devises -- to wife Maria, household goods, horses and carriages and everything in the outhouses belonging to his new built mansion house in Tempsford; -- to son John, corn and farming stock; -- in trust to wife, John Stanley and Richard and Thomas Neave, freehold lands and manors in Great Britain and all his plantations or sugarworks, negro and other slaves in the islands of St Christopher and Nevis, West Indies as follows: - mansion house, messuage in the occupation of Mrs Elizabeth Phipps with close of 6 acres, to wife for life and for use of daughters Mary, Christian, Janet, Elizabeth, Susannah; - old mansion house near Ouse and garden adjoining lime grounds on north, Butler's close and wharf in the occupation of Mr Gorham, the Holmes pasture, to use of son Peter; - other lands etc to son John; in default of heirs, to son of late nephew Charles Payne Sharpe, esquire, deceased, and of Ann Payne, daughter of late brother Charles; - £1000 to daughter Frances, wife of John McArthur Sharpe, esquire; 'And I earnestly request my said trustees ... to emancipate and set free such of the Negroes ... as shall through Age or other Infirmity be incapable of Labour and shall not be likely to recover and to allow such Negroes the same privileges in their Houses, Grounds, Provisions and Cloathing as if they were able to Labour.'

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Payne, Gillies,
Payne, Maria,
Payne, John,
Stanley, John,
Neave, Richard,
Neave, Thomas,
Phipps, Elizabeth,
Payne, Mary,
Payne, Christian,
Payne, Janet,
Payne, Elizabeth,
Payne, Susannah,
Gorham,
Payne, Peter,
Sharpe, Charles Payne,
Payne, Ann,
Payne, Charles,
Payne, Frances,
Sharpe, John McArthur,
Sharpe, Frances

will, sugar plantation, slavery, field names, Tempsford Hall, Saint Kitts and Nevis, TEMPSFORD