Part 297s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – Indenture Research – 1830 James, James Jr., & Archibald Smith

Morning,

The next Record of the Grenada Registers of Records and images downloaded from Item 4 of the microfilm FHL [1563380] includes Pages 614 through 616. The details are that which now bring land surveying techniques into play.

(Image: Table of Surveying from the 1728 Cyclopedia, Volume 2)

The lot and parcel of land referred, all-things-being-equal and I am not a cartographer nor a cadastral expert, may be one adjacent or near to the lots purchased and/or leased by ggg-grandfather James Smith. The references to James Smith and James Smith, Junior are of the order of the Jordanhill Smiths. Other than that there are no indicative hints or clues as to the genealogy, origin, ancestry, nor family tree of ggg-grandfather James.

The images of Pages 614 through 616 include:

And my transcription –

(614)

Examined

Entered 19th April 1830

This Indenture made this fifteenth day of April in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Between John
Guthrie John Ryburn James Smith Andrew Ranken James
Smith Junior and Archibald Smith surviving partners of the house
of Trade some time since carried on in the City of Glasgow in North Britain

(615)

Under the firm of Leitch and Smith of the one part and Robert
Kirk and John Todd both of the town of Saint George in the Island of
Grenada Merchants of the other part Witneʃseth that the said John Guthrie
John Ryburn James Smith Andrew Ranken James Smith Junior and
Archibald Smith for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings
current money of the Island to them in hand well and truly paid
by the said Robert Kirk and John Todd at or before the sealing and deliv
ery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Have
and each and every of them Hath granted bargained sold and by these
presents Do and each and every of them Doth grant bargain and sell
unto the said Robert Kirk and John Todd their executors administrators
and aʃsigns all that or those lot or lots piece or ^pieces parcel or parcels of land
situate lying and being in that part of the town of Saint George in the
said Island of Grenada called or known by the name of the Carenage ex
tending from where Young Street intersects the public paʃsage along the
Harbour and running along said Street North seventy one degrees
West from Young Street along that lot piece or parcel of land with buildings
belonging to Archibald Armstrong for Sixty two feet inches then
running fourteen feet in the direction of North fifty nine and one half
degrees along the said lots pieces or parcels of land and buildings from thence
running thirty six and a half degrees South East Sixty four feet along lots
and buildings belonging to Meʃsieurs George Brown and Co. to the public
paʃsage along the Harbour and thence along said paʃsage on the direction
of North fifty six degrees East Eighty five feet and in the direction of North
Forty two degrees East Sixty five feet to the corner of Young Street contain
inf in all Eighteen thousand nine hundred and Eighty four square feet or
howsoever otherwise the same is abutted or bounded know distinguished or
described together with all and singular the capital meʃsuages houses tene
ments edifices and buildings erected and built standing or being thereon
and also all ways paths paʃsages easements profits commodities emoluments
hereditaments whatsoever to the said premises or any part thereof belonging
or in any wise appertained or therewith at any time heretofore used occupied
or enjoyed poʃseʃsed accepted reputed deemed taken or known as part parcel
or member thereof or appurtenant thereto and the reversion and reversions
remainder and remainders yearly and other rents iʃsues and profits thereof
To have and To hold the said lot or lots piece or pieces parcel or parcels of
land messuages buildings and all other premises above granted bar
gained and sold or intended so to be and every part and parcel thereof with
the appurtenances unto the said Robert Kirk and John Todd their Executors
administrators and aʃsigns from the day next before the day of the date hereof
for and during and unto the dull and term of one whole year from thence
next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended Yielding and Paying _____

(616)

At the end of the said term the rent of a pepper corn if demanded
To the intent that by virtue of these presents and by force of the Statute
for transferring uses into poʃseʃsion they the said Robert Kirk and John
Todd may be in the actual poʃseʃsion of all and singular the said premises
above bargained and sold or mentioned and intended so to be and every part
and parcel thereof with the appurtenances and be thereby enabled to take
and accept of a grant and release of the reversion and inheritance thereof to
them and their heirs and aʃsigns forever by an Indenture intended to bear
date the day next after the date hereof and made between the same persons
as are parties hereto In witneʃs whereof the parties to their presents have
hereto set their hands and seals the day and year above written

John Guthrie by his attorney George Macewan (LS)

John Ryburn by his attorney George Macewan (LS)

James Smith by his attorney George Macewan (LS)

Andrew Ranken by his attorney George Macewan (LS)

James Smith Junr (LS) by his attorney George Macewan

Archibald Smith (LS) by his attorney George Macewan

Signed sealed and delivered }
In the presence of }

Jn. Douglas

This one was short.

Enjoy,

Jim