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Co-heir to a 'considerable personal estate' and one moiety of the New Orange Nassau estate in Demerara. She married her husband Anthony Crosby Martin at Gretna Green in 1802. The couple borrowed against, and then mortgaged the estate, to London merchants.
The estate was subject to the Chancery suit of Martin v. Martin in 1831, between the mortgagees of the estate (James Bell, partner with Charles Reed in Reed, Bell and then Bell and Grant, and Bell's heir James Christian Clement Bell) and Anthony Crosbie Martin and his wife Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin [nee Lespinasse], 'Martin v Martin', Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery Vol. II 1831 (1837) pp. 507 et seq. .
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Maiden Name
Lespinasse
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Spouse
Anthony Crosby Martin
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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:
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1802 [EA] - → Joint owner
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Sister → Brother
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Wife → Husband
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???? - 1848
Successful planter in British Guiana and Grenada; part of a close-knit mixed-race family with numerous business interests.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Maria Elizabeth Alleyne Martin (née Lespinasse)', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146652337 [accessed 19th April 2024].
