Part 289s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1829 David & James Smith

Afternoon,
I’m not complaining, but it is humid. The spectacles fog up immediately as I open the door. At this moment the humidity is 91%, and so I sit at my keyboard with all the windows closed. I need fresh, un-humid air.

Inset image from Google Earth: Approximate location of Bayaleau, Carriacou.

My search continues and the next Record in my Transcription Project is another one of the Carriacou Series. It appears that there is some definite divestiture of land and property that had been taking place. Once again there is no hint or clue of ggg-grandfather James Smith, but I’m beginning to put the relationships of the Bells, the Greens, the Grahams, the McNairns, and the mentioned two Smith families to memory. This Document does not indicate any type of genealogy or ancestral link to ggg-grandfather James.

This next Record was entered to the Grenada Registers of Records 21 December 1829 and appears to be the sale and settlement of a plantation and a parcel of land in the Bayaleau area of Carriacou. The Record begins on page 327 and continues to page 331. The pages are downloaded from the microfilm FHL [1563380].

My transcription –

(327)

Examined

Entered 21 December 1829

This Indenture made the thirty first day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Between James
Smith of Longbeoch in the parish of Irongray and Stewarty of Kirkcudbright
in Scotland in right of his wife Janet Green and the said Janet Green of the
first part Simon Simpson of Dumfries in the County of Dumfries in Scotland
aforesaid Corn Merchant in right of his wife Margaret Green and the said
Margaret Green of the second part William McVitie of Dumfries in Scotland
aforesaid Merchant and Samuel Graham of Lockerby in Dumfries aforesaid
Trustees and Executors under a settlement executed by William Green bearing
date the seventh August one thousand eight hundred and nine and recorded
in the Commiʃsary Court Books of Dumfries aforesaid of the third part
Margaret Green of Dumfries aforesaid only surviving Child and Devisee
of the said William Green late of Nunholm in Scotland aforesaid of the
fourth part (the said Janet Green Margaret Green William Green and Jean
Green herein after mentioned being the children of Janet Bell (one of the sisters
of John Bell late of the Island of Carriacou hereinafter mentioned) and of James
Green of Douglasburn in the County of Dumfries aforesaid with whom the said
Janet Bell intermarried and also Devisees named in the last will and test-
tament of the said John Bell, Samuel Graham of Lockerby in the parish of
Drysdale in Dumfries aforesaid Gentleman and Margaret Wilson his wife
of the fifth part William Graham of Penpont in the Count of Dumfries
aforesaid Gentleman and Janet Rae his wife of the sixth part the said
Samuel Graham only surviving Trustee and Executor acting under a Deed
of Settlement executed by James Graham deceased late of the said Island
of Carriacou Joiner bearing date twenty third February one thousand eight
hundred and one and recorded in the Commiʃsary Court Books of Glasgow
upon the sixteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and two of the
seventh part the said Samuel Graham William Graham and James
Graham being the children of Margaret Bell (another of the sisters of the
said John? Bell) and of John Graham of Applegarth in the County of Dum
fries _____ and? with whom the said Margaret Bell intermarried and also

devisees

(328)

Devisees of the said John Bell John McNairn of Dumfries
Gentleman and Margaret Copland his wife of the eighth part Samuel
McNairn of Lochmaben in the County of Dumfries aforesaid and Agnes
Fade his wife of the ninth part Archibald McNairn of Glasgow aforesaid
Bricklayer and Mary Perry or Perrie his wife of the tenth part James
Johnstone of Glasgow aforesaid Mason in right of his wife Janet McNairn
and the said Janet McNairn of the eleventh part John Wright of
Clouden in the County of Dumfries aforesaid in right of his wife Margaret
McNairn and the said Margaret McNairn of the twelfth part Elizabeth
or Helen McNairn of Shielhill in the County of Lanark in Scotland Spinster
of the thirteenth part William Irving of Orono in the County of Penobscot
and state of Maine in the United States of America Yeoman in right of
his wife Jean McNairn and the said Jean McNairn of the fourteenth
part Jeptha Tucker of the same last mentioned place Yeoman in right
of his wife Grace McNairn of the same last mentioned place Yeoman of the
sixteenth part the said John McNairn Samuel McNairn Archibald
McNairn Janet McNairn Margaret McNairn Elizabeth or Helen
McNairn Jean McNairn Grace McNairn James McNairn being the
children and representatives of Janet Graham another of the children of
the said Margaret Bell and John Graham and which said Janet Graham
intermarried with one John McNairn of Hillend in the parish of Lorn
in the County of Ayr in Scotland George Bell of Glasgow aforesaid Gentle
man and Esther Jardine his wife of the seventeenth part David Smith
of Glasgow aforesaid Gentleman in right of his wife Janet Bell and the
said Janet Bell of the eighteenth part Samuel Bell Doctor of Medicine
and Surgeon in the twenty fifth regiment of foot at present in Demerara
of the nineteenth part (which said George Bell Janet Bell and Samuel
Bell are children and representatives of Mary Bell another of the sisters
of the said John Bell who had intermarried with one Richard Bell of
Applegarth in the County of Dumfries aforesaid) and also devisees of the
said John Bell ^deceased and Thomas Davies of Carriacou aforesaid (who hath pur
chased the right and title of Jean Green one of the daughters of the said
Janet Bell and James Green hereinbefore mentioned and William
McVitie her her husband) of the twentieth part and Samuel Newman
of _____ in the county of _____ in England and France his wife
Dorothea Stewart of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster in En
gland of the twenty first part Witnesseth that the said James Smith
and the said Janet his wife and the said Simon Simpson and the said
Margaret his wife and the said William McVitie and Samuel Graham
(as trustees as aforesaid) and the said Margaret Green and the said
Samuel Graham and the said Margaret his wife the said _____
Graham and the said Janet his wife and the said Samuel Graham?

(329)

Trustee as aforesaid and the said John McNairn and the said
Margaret his wife and the said Samuel McNairn and the said Agnes his
wife and the said Archibald McNairn and the said Mary his wife and the
said James Johnstone and the said Janet his wife and the said John Wright
and the said Margaret his wife and the said Elizabeth McNairn and the
said William Irving and the said Jean his wife and the said Jeptha
Tucker and the said Grace his wife and the said James McNairn and the
said George Bell and the said Esther his wife and the said David Smith
and the said Janet his wife and the said Samuel Bell and Thomas
Davies in consideration of five shillings of lawful money of Great Britain
to them in hand paid by the said Samuel Newman and Frances his wife
and Dorothea Stewart at or before the ensealing and delivery of these pre
sents (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) and for other good causes
and considerations them hereunto especially moving Have and each of them
Hath bargained and sold and by these presents Do and each of them Doth
bargain and sell unto the said Samuel Newman and Frances his wife
and Dorothea Stewart their executors administrators and aʃsigns All that
plantation piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the Quarter
of Bayaleau in the Island of Carriacou containing one hundred and six
acres of land English statute measure or thereabouts abutting and bounded
as next hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) on the north by land belonging
to Meʃsieurs Pelletier and _____ on the West by lands belonging to Mr.
Angus Mackay on the south by lands belonging to Messieurs De Saint Hilaire
and Pelletier and on the East by lands belonging to the said Monsieur Pelletier
or howsoever otherwise the same or any part thereof is abutting bounded known
distinguished or described and also all those forty slaves now upon the said
plantation or estate whose names are particularly mentioned in a Schedule
subjoined to the Indenture of Release hereinafter referred to marked (A) and
the iʃsue and increase of the females of the said slaves and the reversion and
reversions remainder and remainders rents iʃsues and profits of the said
plantations estate lands buildings slaves utensils hereditaments and
premises To have and To hold the said plantation estate lands buildings
slaves utensils hereditaments and premises mentioned or intended to be hereby
bargained and sold together with the iʃsue and increase of the said female
slaves unto the said Samuel Newman and Frances his wife and Dorothea
Stewart their executors administrators and aʃsigns from the day next before the
day of the date of these presents for and during and unto the dull and and term
of one while year from thence next ensuring and fully to be complete and ended
Yielding and paying therefore at the end of the said term the rent of one pepper
corn if the same shall be lawfully demanded To the intent that by virtue
of these presents and by force of the statute for transferring _____ into poʃseʃsion
_____ _____ and Samuel Newman and Frances his wife and Dorothea Stewart
_____ _____ actual poʃseʃsion of the said plantation estate lands buildings

slaves

(330)

Slaves utensils hereditaments and premises mentioned to be
hereby bargained and sold with every of the iʃsue and increase of the
female slaves and thereby be enabled to accept and take a grant and
release of the reversion and inheritance of the said plantation estate
lands buildings slaves utensils hereditament and premises to them
their heirs executors administrators and aʃsigns in such sort manner
and form as shall be declared in an Indenture of release intended to
bear date the day next after the day of the date of these presents and made
or mentioned to be made between the same parties as are parties to these
presents In witneʃs whereof the said parties to these presents have
hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

James (LS) Smith by his attorney Robert Kirk
Janet (LS) Green by her attorney Robert Kirk
Simon (LS) Simpson by his attorney Robert Kirk
Margaret (LS) Green by her attorney Robert Kirk
William (LS) McVitie by his attorney Robert Kirk
Samuel (LS) Graham by his attorney Robert Kirk
Margaret (LS) Green by her attorney Robert Kirk
Samuel (LS) Graham by his attorney Robert Kirk
Margaret (LS) Wilson by her attorney Robert Kirk
William (LS) Graham by his attorney Robert Kirk
Janet (LS) Rae by her attorney Robert Kirk
Samuel (LS) Graham by his attorney Robert Kirk
John (LS) McNairn by his attorney Robert Kirk
Margaret (LS) Copland by her attorney Robert Kirk
Samuel (LS) McNairn by his attorney Robert Kirk
Agnes (LS) Fade by her attorney Robert Kirk
Archibald (LS) McNairn by his attorney Robert Kirk
Mary (LS) Perry by her attorney Robert Kirk
James (LS) Johnstone by his attorney Robert Kirk
Janet (LS) McNairn by his attorney Robert Kirk
John (LS) Wright by his attorney Robert Kirk
Margaret (LS) McNairn by her attorney Robert Kirk
Elizabeth (LS) McNairn by her attorney Robert Kirk
William (LS) Irving by his attorney Robert Kirk
Jean (LS) McNairn by her attorney Robert Kirk
Jeptha (LS) Tucker by his attorney Robert Kirk
Grace (LS) McNairn by her attorney Robert Kirk
James (LS) McNairn by his attorney Robert Kirk
George (LS) Bell by his attorney Robert Kirk
Esther (LS) Jardine by her attorney Robert Kirk
David (LS) Smith by his attorney Robert Kirk
Janet (LS) Bell by her attorney Robert Kirk
Samuel (LS) Bell by his attorney Robert Kirk Thomas (LS) Davis

(331)

Signed sealed and delivered In the presence of

William Houston

And before I continue on to the next records I must now crop and format the downloaded images for your viewing pleasure.

Enjoy.

Jim