Mrs Elizabeth Breholt

Purchaser of an annuity of £100 p.a. for £1400 in 1755 from Thomas Crisp and Nicholas Crisp, secured on a number of assets including shares in ships and an estate and enslaved people at Christ Church Nicholas Town St Kitts.

1. Mrs Elizabeth Breholt died in April 1762 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Letters of administration to her estate were granted, by the Court of the Dean and Chapter, 20 May 1762, she being described as late of St. Margaret's, Westminster, widow, to Nicholas Crisp, a creditor, her only child, Elizabeth, wife of Peter Wirgman, having declined to' administer.

TNA E 214/1205 Description: Parties: Thomas Crisp of London, goldsmith, and Nicholas Crisp of London, haberdasher. Elizabeth Breholt of Croydon co. Surrey, widow, AND James Hundy [=Mundy] of Bedford Row co. Middx., esq. Place or Subject: Assignment of messuages, lands, etc., in Great Totham and Witham co. Essex, and a plantation in Christ Church, Nicholas Town and in the Island of St. Christopher with the mansion house, 'negroes', etc., a sixteenth share in the ships Britannia, Tawistock, Elizabeth, Oxford, Exeter, Ilchester, ... Edbasten and ..., a bond to secure the payment of 680 l. and insurance policies on their dwelling houses; on trust to Mundy to secure an annuity of 100 l. purchased by Mrs Breholt for 1400 l. Essex, West Indies Date: 27 Jan 1755.

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