Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1794

Biography

Will of Lucretia Payne widow of Melton Suffolk [but late of the Island of St Christopher] [made in 1789] proved 24/03/1794. She opened her will by saying that her son-in-law Sir John Blois and Dame Lucretia Blois had recently leased an estate to which Lucretia Blois and her issue were entitled to Clement Caines for 14 years from 1786 for £700 p.a., and that to secure possession to Clement Caines, her daugher and son-in-law had agreed to enter into bond with Clement Caines, and she [Lucretia Payne] had undertaken to deposit £3000 in the hands of William Manning of St Mary Axe and Samuel Span of Bristol, to indemnify Caines against any damage from Lucretia Blois not being able to let out or lease the estate after the end of her natural life, and she left two bonds, one from Sir John Blois for £1100 and one from her deceased son James Parsons Ottley for £2000, to fund the security she had pledged. She left the rest of her property in trust (her trustees were William Manning the younger of Billiter Square and Benjamin Vaughan of Jeffries Square London merchants) to pay monetary legacies totalling £265 to several individuals in St Kitts and England, with the remainder to her daughter for life.

Sources

PROB 11/1243/175.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

(1) Thomas Ottley (2) Payne

Children

Wit (1) Lucretia, James Parsons.

Relationships (4)

Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley

Mother-in-law → Son-in-law

Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley

Testator → Trustee

William Manning

Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley

Testator → Trustee

Benjamin Vaughan

Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley

Mother → Daughter

Dame Lucretia Blois (née Ottley)

Addresses (1)

Melton, Suffolk, East Anglia, England

Further Information

People of Interest

James Evan Baillie

1781 - 14^th Jun 1863

Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family. London and Bristol merchant and banker (Baillie, Ames & Baillie), major recipient of slave compensation across the Caribbean.

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Documents of Interest

Windsor and Williamsfield Inventory of Slaves 1814 p8

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:
'Lucretia Payne formerly Ottley', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666671/ [accessed 16th April 2024].

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