James Holder Alleyne

Money credited for Gregg plantation with Messrs. George Gibbs & Robert Bright, merchants of Bristol. The Spa and Cox's plantations, with all sugar, stock, funds and personal estate were left in trust (his trustees included his wife, his brother Charles Thomas Alleyne of Clifton, Gloucestershire, Robert Bright and his daughter Margaret Hall and son Joseph). There were also bequests to his children: Margaret Hall Alleyne, Caroline Alleyne and Joseph Alleyne: each received £5,000 + 3 1/2% consols. To son Arthur Osborne Gibbs Alleyne: £5,000. To son James Holder Alleyne, £6,000 and advance money to pay for his Captaincy or Majority in the army. (He was Lieutenant in the 52nd Regiment.) Joseph to receive £250 per annum until he completed his education at Cambridge University. He was then to receive £200 p.a. on the death of his mother. Up to £5,000 to be given to his son Alexander McGeachy [Alleyne] to purchase an ensign's commission or Lieutenancy, Captaincy and Majority. As the surviving trustee of the Marriage Settlement of John Alleyne Holder Esquire and Jane Haggatt [Haggitt?] Holder his late wife and as Guardian of the persons and estates of Julia Holder, John Alleyne Holder and Henry Holder their children the trust estates and property were to be passed to his son Joseph. Other small bequests included to his step-daughters, Georgiana Mary Clarke wife of William Clarke of Barbados and to Mary Reeve Alleyne, wife of Henry Alleyne of Barbados. It was to be lawful he said for his eldest son to purchase either or both of his [the testator's] estates in the West Indies, notwithstanding he the son being a trustee of the will.