BS1512

Demise for 30 years: (i) Charles Payne of Nevis 'in America', esquire (ii) Sir Gillies Payne of St Kits 'in America', baronet, Richard Neave of Broad Street, St Bennett Fink, London merchant, Peter Robert Luard of Copthall Court, St Bartholomew, London merchant. Recites various matters [details given]. Upon condition of payment of debts: plantation land late of Sir Charles Payne, deceased, in parish of St Thomas, commonly called Lowland, in Nevis (300 acres), part being cultivated cane land, the other part mountainous; also all negroes and slave, men and women and children, numbering 85, except children; all horses and mules, cows, oxen, sheep; coppers, stews, ladles, skimmers, potting basins, stills, stillheads, worms, wormtubs, coolers, cisterns, plantation tools etc. Witnesses: Oliver Baron, John Townsend

27 Mar 1758

From: 1758 To: 1758

Details given: Recites that Charles Payne is seized of a moiety of the estate and is entitled to the other moiety on the death of his mother Dame Janet Payne, devised by will of Sir Charles, deceased. That about beginning of May last, Dame Janet assigned to Charles her right to the estate for £200 per annum. Charles Payne is indebted to several persons (schedule attached).

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Payne, Charles,
Payne, Gillies,
Neave, Richard,
Luard, Peter Robert,
Baron, Oliver,
Townsend, John,
Payne, Janet

deed, merchant, plantations, sugar, slavery, debt, Nevis, St Kitts, Bloomsbury Broad Street, London St Bartholomew the Great