Part 274s – Smith Robertson Genealogy – 1829 Gavin Smith

Afternoon,

Just got out of the pool… I had to cool down after cutting bamboo and the hedge. Looks like some big bird squatted right on top of the crepe myrtle in the front. I’ve been pulling dead and broken, new branches. Certainly looks like some mother-of-a-bird had to have thought it was a nest. In all these years I’ve never had that happen. The front garden is definitely a conglomeration of color and scents and you know it is heightened when the empty green garbage bags even begin smelling like they are laced with perfume.

The garden is just a continuing bloom of color. And all the banana mamas have had daughters… so much for the past freeze. (All of the above images were taken this week in my gardens.)

And back to my genealogy search and research for the ancestry and origins of ggg-grandfather James Smith. My next Record appears to be a Document entered 30 June 1829 but in reference to a recorded transaction of 2nd and 3rd of March, 1804. As I thought I would be going back and forth through the years trying to search for the clues and the hints that may or may not be pertinent to ggg-grandfather James. This Record includes one Gavin Smith, who I believe was the same who created the early surveying and mapping of Grenada. From all previous investigation I have not encountered any documentation which inter-connects genealogically Gavin Smith to ggg-grandfather James.

The following pages, 34 and 35 from the Grenada Registers of Records and downloaded from Item 4 of the microfilm FHL [1563380].

My transcription -

(34)

Examined

Entered 30th June 1829

To all People to whom these presents shall come I Julien Lussan
of the Town of Saint George in the Island of Grenada Esquire send Greeting
Whereas by Indentures of Lease and Release bearing date the second
and third days of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and four and made between James Lair of the Town of Saint George in the
Island of Grenada Esquire of the one part and me the said Julien Lussan
of the other part He the said James Lair for and consideration of the sum
of Eight hundred and twenty five pounds current money of Grenada therein
mentioned to be paid to him by me the said Julien Luʃsan Did grant bar
gain sell release and confirm unto me the said Julien Lussan All that
piece or parcel of land and the meʃsuage and tenement thereon erected
and built situate lying and being in Halifax Street in the Tow of Saint
George in the said Island of Grenada containing by _____ measurement eighteen
feet or thereabouts in front towards the said Street called Halifax Street
abutted and bounded on the East by the said --- street called Halifax Street
on the north by the land of Gavin Smith on the south by the land of Marie
Jeanne Dauphin Richier and on the West by the lands of Moritz Hardman
formerly the property of Touʃsaint Ioʃsel deceased And all and all manner
of houses and houses and buildings stables yards gardens lands tenements
woods underwoods ways watercourses privileges profits commodities conolu-
ments? hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever to the said piece or par
cel of ground and the meʃsuage and tenement thereon erected and built
belonging or appertaining or used or enjoyed with the same or held accepted
or reputed as part parcel or member thereof or as belonging to the same or
any part thereof And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders
yearly and other rents issues and profits thereof and of every part and parcel
thereof And also all the estate right title interest claim and demand what-
soever both at law or in equity of him the said James Lair of in to or out of
the said piece or parcel of land and the meʃsuage and tenement thereonerect-
ed and built buildings lands tenements hereditaments and other thereby
granted and released or any of them or any part or parcel thereof To hold
the same unto me the said Julien Lussan my heirs and assigns to and
for the only proper use and behoof of me the said Julien Lussan my heirs
and assigns for ever Now know ye that I the said Julien Luʃsan de hereby
acknowledge testify and declare that the said sum of Eight hundred and
twenty five pounds current money aforesaid above mentioned to be paid
unto the said James Lair by me the said Julien Lussan as aforesaid
was and is the proper money of Marie Jeanne Widow Dauphin Richier
of the same town and Island and that the name of me the said Julien
Lussan in the said Indenture of lease and Release hereinbefore _____ _____
as used only in trust for her the said Marie Jeanne Widow Dauphin
Richier and that I my heirs executors and administrators shall _____ _____
or times hereafter upon the request and at the proper costs and _____

said

(35)

Said Marie Jeanne Widow Dauphin Richier her heirs executors or
administrators transfer convey and aʃsure unto the said Marie Jeanne Widow
Dauphin Richier her heirs executors administrators or assigns or to any Trustee
or Trustees to be nominated by her them or any of them the said freehold premises
so released and confirmed unto me the said Julien Lussan as aforesaid together
with all my estate right title and interest thereunto in such manner as by
her the said Marie Jeanne Widow Dauphin Richier her heirs executors ad-
ministrators or assigns or her or their counsel learned in the law shall be
reasonably devised or required In witness whereof I the said Julien Lyssand
have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of March in the forty fourth
year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the third by the grace of God of the
united Kingdom of England and Ireland King Defender of the faith to and
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four

Jn. Lussan (LS)

Sealed and Delivered in the presence of

C. T. Richardson

Grenada

Before me the Honorable Jeffery Hart Bent
Chief Justice of the Island of Grenada and its de-
pendencies –

Personally appear, Victor La Barrie of the said Island Esquire who
being duly sworn in the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God maketh with and
saith that the signature of “C.T. Richardson” to the Deed Poll or Paper
writing hereunto annexed appearing as a witness to the handwriting of Julien
Lussan of the Island aforesaid Esquire, is the proper handwriting of Clement
Thomas Richardson and the said Clement Thomas Richardson usually
signed and made his signature in the manner and form as appears by the said
Deed Poll or Paper writing And that the said Clement Thomas Richardson
is not within the Jurisdiction of this Island And this deponent further
saith that the signature “Jn. Luʃsan” to the said Deed Poll or paper writing
appearing as the party executing the same is of the proper handwriting of the
said Julien Lussan whose the same purports to be

Victor La Barrie

Sworn to before me this thirtieth day of June 1829

Jeffery Hart Bent
Chief Justice

Enjoy,

Jim