James Crabb

A group of annuitants on Richmond estate in Jamaica (including James Crabb of London merchant assignee of Sam. Mockett now or late of the Poultry gent.) were listed as parties to an original agreement with William Gray in an indenture with Emanuel Baruch Lousada and Jacob Israel Bernal 13/10/1784 for the payment of their annuities to which the two estates [Old and New Works] were subject on their purchase by Lousada and Bernal. An amount of money related to the Spring estate (for which his nieces claimed the compensation) also appears in his will, implying he was possibly among the annuitants of Montague James in Hanover Jamaica.

1. James Crabb appeared among the members of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies in 1825.

2. Will of James Crabb [formerly of Southampton Row in the parish] of St George Bloomsbury [afterwards of Shidfield and late of Southampton] proved 07/01/1829. He disposed of significant personalty, including in a codicil of 1826 £100,000 of 3% consols between his three daughters, although a note of the property of James Crabb, attached and apparently contemporaneous to the codicil, shows £79,000 in consols and reduced consols, £5000 bank stock, £1000 East India Co. stock, £500 Globe Assurance and £333 6s 8d 'In Chancery Plowman, Spring Estate Jamaica.'

3. Two of his daughters married Admirals: Arabella Sarah to Rear-Admiral Vashon Volant Ballard (d. 1832), and Harriet Louisa to Vice Admiral Aiskew Paffard Hollis (d. 1844).

Caribbeana Vol. III pp. 156-7.

1. A List of the Names of the Members of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies who appeared by the Company's books to be qualified to vote at the General election 12th April 1826 (London, 1825) p. 24.

2. PROB 11/1750/82.

3. The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 102, Part 2 p. 646.