James Grierson

Slave-owner of Jamaica, dying in Scotland in 1832, having apparently sold out of his interests in Jamaica. His uncle, John Macourtie or Mccourtie (q.v.), had given him the option (which he exercised) to buy the Mavis Bank coffee estate from Macourtie's trustees, who held it under the will for Grierson's brother John.

1. At Nunwood, on the 10th instant [July 1832], James Grierson, of Nunwood, formerly of Kell’s Castle, in the island of Jamaica, Esq.

2. Will of James Grierson of [Nunwood] Terregles Stewartry of Kircudbright proved 12/12/1832. He left the estate named Nunwood in trust [subject to an annuity to Mary Smith alias Mackenzie, the widow of a previous owner], to secure annuities of £10 p.a. each to his sisters Mary, Betty, Francis [sic] and Ann, and after monetary legacies of 10 or 20 guineas to a series of family and friends he made his sisters his residuary legatees. The will is silent on property in Jamaica.

1. Dumfries & Galloway Courier Birth, Marriage and Death Notices,Transcribed by Diana Henry and Robert Wells http://www.rjw-data.info/DGC%20PDF%20files/1832.pdf [accessed 19/10/2018].

2. PROB 11/1809/49.