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Drews Gift

Antigua | St John

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Associated People (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
- 1751 [EY] → Joint owner
Frances Baijer then Murray (née Oliver)

Frances Murray appeared as party to the indenture under which she and her husband John Murray conveyed Drews Gift of 175 acres in St John Antigua, now or late in the tenure of Nathaniel Gilbert on lease of £500 p.a. to Drewry Ottley for £3000, to be repaid 01/07/1754 (£75 interest p.a. yearly and £3075 principal and interest). The lease to Nathaniel Gilbert had commenced 04/06/1747.

1747 [EA] - → Lessee
Nathaniel Gilbert

Notes

Not yet traced beyond 1751.

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1751
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot) 32(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Drews Gift  
[Size] 175  
 

Under an indenture of 19/06/1751 John Murray late of Antigua but at present of London and Frances his wife conveyed Drews Gift of 175 acres in St John Antigua, now or late in the tenure of Nathaniel Gilbert on lease of £500 p.a. to Drewry Ottley for £3000, to be repaid 01/07/1754 (£75 interest p.a. yearly and £3075 principal and interest). The last to Nathaniel Gilbert had been entered into 04/06/1747.

 
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol.II p. 282