Part 619s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1801 William, Robert, James – Belvidere, Boulogne, Madeys and Union Estates and Plantations – Part 3 of 6

Good Day,

And now on to the third session of six that incorporate my Transcription work of the 1800 Document from the Grenada Registers of Records. All-things-being equal there has been no immediate clue or hint of connection to ggg-grandfather James Smith. I can’t even say how old ggg-grandfather James was in 1800, but his first child, Eley, of whom I have an 1814 Baptism record, was born in 17 March 1812. So was ggg-grandfather an infant, a young child, or a young man at the time of the recording of the 1800 Document?

From the “S Index”of the Grenada Registers of Records the entry “Scott Alexr. & others . . . . to James Law & his Trustees Conveyance (of 2 Estates) Folio 1” includes this Document and the previous ones that I worked with in Parts 614s and the Document beginning in Part 608s and Part 535s.

In my research this proves to the point that I cannot only depend upon that which is included in the “old” Indexes… or for that matter what may be recorded in “new” Index. All-things-being-equal the “old” Index of this specific Register of Records of Grenada may have been created sometime in the early 1800s. As you can see the only surnames included in the Register Index are Scott and Law. And what does this mean? It means that I have to peruse, review, read the complete Document to determine that any Smiths, the surname of which I am concerned, are included in the body of the test. Bottom-line, there are NO shortcuts.

The following names are names that appear only on the first page of the Schedule Document; Page 34. (See Part 617s.)

Sir Charles Kent

Dame Mary Kent

Ann Verelst, Widow

Josias Wordsworth

Samuel Wordsworth, Deceased

Ann Wordsworth, Widow

Ann (née Wordsworth) Algehr, Widow

Peter Christopher Algehr

Reverend William Smith

Alexander Scott

Michael Scott, Deceased

Marthé Marie Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott, Widow

Peter Lushington

James Law

Archeson Irwin

Andrew Irwin

Here are the images of the Pages 48 through and including 54 from the Register as downloaded from Item 3 of the FHL microfilm [1563378].

My transcription -

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And every sum and sums of Money secured thereby or recoverable thereupon And of and in all securities for the same sum and sums of Money To hold the same (except as aforesaid) unto and to the use of the said William Lushington to his Heirs Executors Admons and A∫signs according to the natures and qualities thereof respectively were the same Real or Personal To the Intent that the said William Lushington his Heirs Executors Admons and A∫signs might be scised and po∫se∫sed of the intirety of the said Hereditaments Chattels and Premises Subject neverthle∫s as therein mentioned And also subject to the Proviso or Condition for redemption of the same Premises thereinafter contained that is to say Provided always neverthele∫s and it is thereby covenanted declared and agreed by and between the said Parties to the said Indenture now in recital that if the said James Law his Heirs Executors or Administrators should from time to time and at all times thereafter keep indemnified the said William Lushington his Heirs Executors and Administrators of from and against the Covenant on the part of him the said William Lushington contained in the said in part recited Indenture of the twenty ninth day of July One thousand seven hundred and ninety one to pay the said Debt of Eight thousand Pounds and Interest to the said Peter Christopher Algehr and Ann his Wife and for from and against all the Covenants contained on the part of the said William Lushington and James Law in the said several Articles of Agreement of the twenty seventh day of March One thousand and seven hundred and ninety three and the _____ day of _____ One thousand seven hundred and ninety four And also of from and against the Payment of all and every the Debts mentioned and specified in the Schedule thereunder written And of from and against all and all manner of costs charges damages and expenses whatsoever which he or they might bear pay sustain incur be put unto or be liable for reason or means of the non payment thereof or any part thereof or of his or their being party or parties to any Suit or Suits or of any matter or thing whatsoever in any way relating to the same Debts or any part thereof or any Security for the same or any part thereof according to the true intent and meaning of the said Award then and so soon as the said several sums of Money mentioned in the said Schedule thereunder written should be paid or satisfied or the said William Lushington his Heirs Executors and Administrators and his and their Estate and Effects should be discharged therefrom the said William Lushington his Heirs Executors and Administrators should at the request and at the proper costs and Charges of the said James Law his Heirs Executors Admors or A∫signs well and effectually convey and a∫sign the intirety of the said Plantations Pieces or Parcels of Land Me∫suages Buildings Fixtures Negro and other Salves Debt Sum and Sums of Money or so much thereof as should remain due owing and unreceived and all and singular other the Hereditaments and Premises thereby released and a∫signed or intended so to be with their Appurtenances unto and to the use of the said James Law his Heirs Executors Administrators and A∫signs according to the nature and quality thereof But subject neverthele∫s to such Equity of Redemption as the said Mortgaged Premises should then be subject to and also subject to the said in part recited Articles of Agreement of the thirty first day of August One thousand seven hundred and ninety two the twenty seventh day of March One thousand seven hundred and ninety three and the _____ day of _____ One thousand seven hundred and ninety seven and made or expre∫sed to be made between thesaid Charles Ashwell of the first part the said Alexander Scott of the second part the said James Law of the third part Patrick Crawford Bruce ^then and now a Partner with the said James Law of the fourth part and

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The said William Lushington party hereto therein described as William Lushington the Elder and William Lushington the younger and John Mavor of the City of London Merchants of the fifth part After reciting (amongst other things) that the said Alexander Scott after he attained the age of twenty one years confirmed the said recited Agreement of the thirty-first day of August One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two and on account of the short delivery of Stock or other Effects belonging to the said Estates agreed to make and allowance of One thousand five hundred Pounds thereby reducing the said sum of fifty one thousand Pounds the Purchase Money for the said Estates to forty-nine thousand five hundred Pounds thesaid James Law did for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators covenant promise and agree with and to the said Charles Ashwell his Heirs Executors and Administrators that he the said James Law his Heirs Executors or Administrators ∫hould and would take upon himself the performance of the said in part recited Agreement of the thirty-first day of August One thousand seven hundred and ninety-two for the Purchase of the said Plantations or Estates called Madeys and Belvidere upon the same terms and Conditions in every respect as the said Charles Ashwell stood engaged by the said Argument to become the Purchaser thereof but Purchase Money for the same originally fifty-one thousand Pounds been reduced to the said sum of forty-nine thousand five hundred Pounds as therein before mentioned And it is thereby agreed between the said Alexander Scott and James Law that in consideration of the said James Law a∫suming the performance of the Agreement entered into by the said Charles Ashwell for the purchase of said Estates as therein before mentioned he the said Alexander Scott his Executors or Administrators should and would allow the said James Law his Heirs Executors or Administrators the sum of five thousand Pounds Sterling on account of the Inquiry done to the said Estates in the then late Insurrections and troubles in the said Island of Grenada and that the said sum of five thousand Pounds should be added to and thereafter come pose part of the Balance due to the said late Partnership of Lushington and Law from the Estates of the said Michael Scott deceased And Whereas by Articles of Agreement bearing date on or about the seventeenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven and made or expre∫sed to be made between the said Alexander Scott of the first part said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott of the second part and the said James Law of the third part After reciting (amongst other things) that the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott under and by virtue of a certain Deed bearing date the nineteenth day of November One thousand seven hundred and sixty five was entitled to a Jointure of One thousand Pounds per annum for the term of her natural Life i∫suing out of the said three Plantations called Madeys Belvidere and Boulogne Estates but which Jointure the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott had by the said recited Articles of the thirty first day of August One thousand seven hundred and ninety two agreed to accept and take from and out of the said Estate and Premises called the Boulogne Estate and to release the said Plantations called Madeys and Belvidere therefrom And reciting that in consequence of the Insurrections which had taken place in the said Island of Grenada the Jointure of the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott was considerably in arrear and that she had applied to and requested the said James Law to secure to her

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The Payment of the sum of five hundred Pounds Sterling during such part of the term of two Years to be computed from the sixteenth day of October then last as she should happen to live and also to engage to pay to her during the term of her natural life and from and after the sixteenth day of October which would be in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight the yearly sum of five hundred Pounds Provided the produce of the said Plantation called the Boulogne Estate should yield that sum after defraying all the Island expenses and the sum of Money that should be laid out and expended in the nece∫sary supply of Stores with Interest for the same And provided the said Island of Grenada should continue in Peace and remain in the Po∫se∫sion of the King of Great Britain and such Crops and Produce of the said Plantation and Premises called the Boulogne Estate should be received by the said James Law or his Agents And that in consideration thereof she the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott had agreed to postpone the Payment of all Arrears of her aforesaid Jointure and also the growing payments of the mority thereof until the Debt then due and owing unto the said James Law as aforesaid and such other Debt as should thereafter be due and owing unto him his Executors Administrators or A∫signs with Interest at the rate of six Pounds per cent per annum should be reduced to the sum of five thousand Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain but upon condition neverthele∫s that when such Debt should be so reduced all the arrears of the aforesaid Jointure that should be then due and all sums that might thereafter become due in respect thereof should be considered as a Charge upon the said Plantation and Premises called the Boulogne Estate in Preference to any debt that might be then due and owing unto the said James Law his Executors Administrators or A∫signs And reciting that the said Alexander Scott in order to induce the said James Law to comply with such request of the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott and the better to enable him so to do had agreed to deliver up the Po∫se∫sion of the said Plantation called Boulogne Estate with the Salves Cattle and all other the Appurtenances thereunto belonging so that the said James Law should and might be deemed considered and taken to all Intents and purposes as the Mortgagee in Po∫se∫sion thereof it being neverthele∫s agreed that the said James Law his Heirs Executors Administrators or A∫signs should not bring or cause the said Plantation and Premises to be brought to sale during the space of seven Years nor institute any Suit at Law or in Equiity for that purpose provided the said James Law should remain in the peaceable and quiet Po∫se∫sion of the said Premises as such Mortgagee as aforesaid in manner therein after mentioned And that the said Alexander Scott had accordingly given the nece∫sary directions to his Agents in the said Island of Grenada to deliver up the Po∫se∫sion of the said Plantation and Premises called the Boulogne Estate unto the said James Law It is by the said Articles of Agreement now in recital Witne∫sed and the said James Law did thereby for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators Covenant Promise and agree to and with the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De ST. Cyr Scott her Executors Administrators and A∫signs that he the said James Law his Executors or Administrators should and would well and truly Pay or cause to be paid unto the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott and her A∫signs ^at the common Dining Hall of Lincoln’s Inn in the County of Middlesex the said annual sum of five hundred Pounds by Quarterly Payments during such part of the said term of Two Years to be computed from the said sixteenth day of October then last as ∫he the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott should continue to live

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And further that whilst the said Island of Grenada should continue in Peace and remain in the Po∫se∫sion of the King of Great Britain and the Crops and Produce of thesaid Plantation and Premises called the Boulogne Estate should be received by the said James Law or his Agents and such nett produce and Crops should yield the clear yearly sum of five hundred Pounds after defraying all the Island dispenses and all sums of money that should be laid out and expended in the nece∫sary supply of Stores with the Interest thereof he the said James Law his Executors or Admons should and would pay or cause to be paid unto the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott during the term of her natural life at the time in the manner and at the place after said the said yearly sum of five hundred Pounds And it is by the said Articles of Agreement now in recital further Witne∫sed and the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott Did thereby for herself her Heirs Executors and Administrators covenant Promise and agree to and with the said James Law his Executors at Administrators and A∫signs that she the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott should and would accept and take during the respective times aforesaid said several Payments so covenanted to be made as aforesaid in lieu and satisfaction of her said Jointure and of all claims and demands in respect thereof And it is by the said Articles now in recital further Witne∫sed and the said James Law did thereby for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators covenant promise and agree to and with the said Alexander Scott his Heirs Executors Administrators and A∫signs that he the said James Law his Heirs Executors and Administrators should not nor would at any time within the said space of seven years bring or cause the said Plantation and Premises called the Boulogne Estate to be brought to sale nor institute any suit at Law or in Equity for that purpose he the said James Law and not being Interrupted during that time in the peaceable and quiet Po∫se∫sion of the said Premises as such Mortgagee as aforesaid by reason of any act to be done or committed by the said Alexander Scott his Heirs Executors or Administrators or by any Person or Persons claiming or to claim by from or under him or them And Whereas by a Memorandum indorsed on the said last recited Articles and subscribed by the said Alexander Scott and James Law It was agreed by and between the said Parties thereto that in case the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott should die before the expiration of the said term of seven Years in the said Articles mentioned the allowance of five hundred Pounds per annum therein agreed to be paid to her in lieu of her Jointure should from thenceforth be paid to the said Alexander Scott his Executors Administrators or A∫signs towards the subsistance of himself and his family for such time and in such manner as the same would have been paid to the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott if she were living and that such Payments should be charged to the said Estate It was also thereby agreed that regular Accounts should be kept by the said James Law of all the Expenses and produce of the said Estate and of all his receipts and disbursements for account of the said Alexander Scott and such Accounts rendered to the said Alexander Scott on or before the thirtieth day of April in every Year And Whereas the arrears due to the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott in respect of her said Jointure up to the sixteenth day of October in the Year One thousand seven

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Hundred and ninety-six amounted to the sum of One thousand five hundred Pounds And Whereas the said Charles Gore Philadelphia Gore and Catherine Gore to whom the said Annuities of Two hundred Pounds Fifty Pounds and Fifty Pounds were respectively secured by the said three several in part recited Bonds of the ninth day of July One thousand seven hundred and seventy-one are yet living and the said Ann Wordsworth as such Administratrix as aforesaid hath since the decease of the said Michael Scott paid to them respectively several Payments of their Annuities amounting in the whole to the sum of Two thousand two hundred and three Pounds five Shillings And Whereas the said James Law lately applied to the said Sir Charles Kent and Dame Mary his Wife and Ann Verelst and requested them to convey the legal estate and interest now vested in them the said Dame Mary Kent and Ann Verelst add the Coheire∫ses at Law of the said Jona Wordsworth of and in the said Plantations called Boulogne and Union Estates and the said several Slaves Negroes and other Effects thereon unto the said James Law and in order to induce them so to do he the said James Law proposed and agreed to give security to the satisfaction of the said Ann Wordsworth for the payment of the said Sum of Two thousand Two hundred and three Pounds five shillings now due and owing unto her for the arrear of the said three several Annuities as aforesaid and also to indemnify and save harmle∫s the Estate and Effects Real and Personal of the said Samuel Wordsworth of from and against the future Payments of such Annuities in manner hereinafter mentioned and the said Sir Charles Kent and Dame Mary his Wife and Ann Verelst hath consented and agreed to comply with each request of the said James Law on the Conditions aforesaid And Whereas the said sum of Eight thousand Pounds was not paid at the time mentioned in the Proviso for redemption contained in the said recited Indenture of Release of the Eighteenth day of June One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six whereby the Estate of the said Christopher Algehr and Ann his Wife in the Mortgaged Premises became absolute at Law And Whereas the said James Law out of his own proper Money have to advanced and paid to thesaid William Smith since the decease of the said Ann Algehr the sum of Six thousand Pounds part of the said Principal sum of Eight thousand Pounds together with all Interest due in respect thereof and the said James Law hath debited the said Alexander Scott in account And Whereas there was due and owing to the said James Law on the first day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand and seven hundred and ninety-six upon or by virtue of the said recited Securities so transferred to him and the said William Lushington (party hereto) in and by the said in part recited Indentures of Lease and Release of the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth days of July in the Year One Thousand seven hundred and ninety-one as aforesaid and to which the said James Law is now become solely intitled the sum of forty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty-six Pounds fourteen ∫hillings and Seven pence including the said sum of six thousand Pounds with the Interest thereof so paid by the said James Law as aforesaid and over and above the sum of two thousand Pounds residue of the said sum of Eight thousand Pounds secured by the said Mortgage with the Interest thereof but from which said sum of fifty-six Thousand eight hundred and forty-six Pounds fourteen and eleven pence the said James Law and Alexander Scott agreed to deduct the sum of forty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight Pounds sixteen shillings and eight pence due as the residue of the said sum of fifty-one thousand Pounds so agreed to be paid for the Purchase of the

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Said Estates called Madeys and Belvidere after allowing the said sum of One thousand five hundred Pounds and divers other Payments made by the said James Law whereby the said sum of forty thousand eight hundred and forty-six Pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence was reduced to the sum of two thousand and seventeen Pounds agreed to be allowed for the injuries so done to the said Estates of Madeys and Belvidere as aforesaid and which was to be a charge on the said Plantations called Boulogne and Union And said Alexander Scott and James Law agreed that the sums of forty-four thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight Pounds sixteen shillings and Eight pence should be retained by the said James Law in satisfaction and discharge of so much of his said Mortgage Debt of forty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-six Pounds fourteen shillings and eleven pence And whereas there was due and owing from the said Alexander Scott to the said James Law for Principal and Interest on the first day of January in the year One thousand eight hundred the sum of thirty-one thousand three hundred and fifteen Pounds one shilling and three pence including the said balance of two thousand and seventeen Pounds eighteen shillings and three pence and also the allowance of the said sum of five thousand Pounds for the injuries done to the estates of Madeys and Belvidere as aforesaid and likewise the said sum of two thousand Pounds residue of the said sum of Eight thousand Pounds secured by the said Mortgage and which has been paid by the said James Law __________________________________ And whereas the said legacies of four thousand Pounds apiece bequeathed by the said recited Will of the said Michael Scott unto the said Mary Ann Scott Emma Scott and Francis Scott now Francis De Chilers and Robert Bygoe Scott have yet being discharged And Whereas it hath been agreed that the said to Plantations and Estates called Madeys and Belvidere and the Slaves and Plantation Stores and Stock agreed to be purchased by the said James Law shall be conveyed the said James Law his Heirs and A∫signs free from all the Incumbrances hereinbefore mentioned and subject only to the performance of the said two agreements with the sale of certain parts thereof to the said Duncan Davidson and Charles Snell Chauncey (for the conveyance of which accordingly certain Indenture of Lease and Release are now prepared and engro∫sed and are intended to be executed immediately after the execution hereof and that for the purpose of enabling the said James Law to reimburse himself the said sum of two thousand two hundred and three Pounds five ∫hillings agreed to be paid by him to the said Ann Wordsworth as aforesaid and all such sum or sums as he may be called upon to pay to the said Charles Gore Philadelphia Gore and Catherine Gore or any of them in respect of their said Annuities and for the Purpose of indemnifying him against any Claims on account of the said Bond of Indemnity agreed to be given by him to the said Ann Wordsworth and for the purpose of enabling the said James Law to repay himself the said sums agreed to be already paid by him to the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott in respect of the said yearly sum of five hundred Pounds agreed to be paid to her up to the said sixteenth day of October One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight as after said and to pay to her the rest of such

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Yearly sum and also the said subsequent yearly sum of five hundred Pounds agreed to be accepted by her in respect of her Jointure of one thousand Pounds according to the said recited agreement of the seventeenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven and to retain and pay himself the said sum of thirty-one thousand three hundred and fifteen Pounds one Shilling and three pence so due and owing on the said first day of January one thousand eight hundred and to pay the arrears of the said Jointure to the said Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott according to the terms of the same articles of Agreement said Plantation called the Boulogne and Union Estate and the Slaves Plantation Stores and Stock thereon shall be conveyed and a∫sured unto and to the use of the said James Law his Heirs and A∫signs upon the trusts and in manner hereinafter mentioned And whereas the said James Law hath in pursuance of the said agreement together with the said Patrick Crawford Bruce by a Bond or Obligation in Writing under both their Hands and Seals bearing even date with these Presents become jointly and severally and unto thesaid Ann Wordsworth as such Administratrix as aforesaid in the Final sum of twelve thousand Pounds with a Condition thereunder written for making void the same if the said James Law and Patrick Crawford Bruce or either of them their or either of their Heirs Executors or Administrators shall from time to time well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said Charles Gore Philadelphia Gore and Catherine Gore or their A∫signs the said several Annuities or yearly sums of two hundred Pounds fifty Pounds and fifty Pounds secured by the said three several hereinbefore recited Bonds or Obligations for their respective lives as aforesaid or and when the same shall severally become due and payable according to the true intent and meaning of the same Bonds and Obligations and also shall at all times hereafter harmle∫s and keep indemnified the said Ann Wordsworth her Heirs Executors and Adminis trators and also the Heirs Executors and Administrators of the said Samuel Wordsworth of from and against all sum and sums of moneys costs charges damages and expenses whatsoever which the said Ann Wordsworth her Heirs Executors or xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Administrators or the Heirs Executors or Administrators of the said Samuel Wordsworth deceased shall at any time or times hereafter bear pay sustain expend or be put unto for or on account or by reason or means of the said Samuel Wordsworth having executed the said several recited Annuity Bonds or any or either of them or touching or relating thereto or in anywise whatsoever And Whereas the said William Lushington party hereto hath consented and agreed to join in conveying and a∫suring the said Plantation called the Boulogne and Union Estate and the Stock and Stores thereon unto the said James Law and to a∫sign unto him all benefit to be derived from the Personal Securities vested in them the said William Lushington party hereto and James Law as additional or collateral Securities for payment of the Debt due to them from the said Michael Scott deceased as aforesaid in manner hereinafter mentioned in consideration of his the said James Law’s having agreed to give to the said William Lushington party hereto some other satisfactory Security and indemnity against such of the Debts Charges and Engagements from which

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And now on to Pages 55 through 60; Part 4 of 6. Isn't this exciting. Stay tuned, and ya'll come back now.

Enjoy,

Jim