J. Prentergast

Agent and possibly principal among a group pursuing the compensation for Emmaus Pen in St Elizabeth Jamaica.

T71/870 St Elizabeth no. 296. T71/1608 letter from J.Prentergast [apparently acting executor for legatees], Waterland House Tuam: 22/10/1835: please don't pay to anyone without my authority on my Counterclaim; 8/8/1836 status? T71/1593 p. 248 11/8/1836 letter to J. Prentergast on timing of contested claims. From J.Prentergast 16/11/1836: 'I think it is right to make your acquaintance with a conditional compromise which all the legatees of the late Mr Cuff..have entered into with his son John Cuff now in London.' Estate could not meet the debts and legacies, 'we have therefore consented to take five shillings and two pence British for every Jamaican pound provided he pays this amount previous to the day on which the execution of this cause is to come before you, if he does not the compromise is not valid [?] and I must proceed myself to London.'