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1 NAME Abel /ALLEYNE/
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2 DATE 12 Jun 1706
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2 DATE 12 Jun 1706
2 PLAC St James Barbados
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1 NOTE a member of the Barbados Council and a Lieutenant-General in that Island.
1 NOTE Abel Alleyne owned considerable property in Barbados. In 1666 he purchased from his step
2 CONC father, John Turner of St Philip, for 5,728 pounds sterling one half share of a plantation
2 CONC in the parish of St. Andrew of 421 acres (? Turner's Hall) with the following boundaries:-
2 CONC Bounded on the east by lands of Thomas Lake and a river called the Sea River, on the south
2 CONC by lands of Thomas Johnson and the lands of one Woodward then in possession of Mr Ralph
2 CONC Fretwell, on lands of Col. Lewis Morris, on lands of Capt. William Porter, on the West on
2 CONC lands of the said Col. Morris and a river which is the bounds of part of the lands of
2 CONC Mr. John Bawden and Mr. John Sparkes, on the north on lands of the said John Bawden and
2 CONC John Sparkes unto the corner of the aforesaid Thomas lake; together with a moiety of all
2 CONC houses, buildings, mill, mill works, coppers, stills, sugar works, woods, timber trees,
2 CONC and of all negroes, horses, cattle, and assenegroes. This plantation is said to be the
2 CONC family estate known as Mount Alleyne in the XVII and XVIII centuries.
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He was one of the Assistant Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the precinct of
2 CONC St. Andrew and St. Joseph 1683, Major of Militia, afterwards Colonel 1689, and later
2 CONC Lieut. General in the Island. Member of Assembly for St. Andrew in 1684-5, Member for
2 CONC St. James 1686-1701. Speaker 1690 and other occasions, and Old Planter and Member of
2 CONC Council 1701.
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10 June 1692 Governor Kendall recommended for the Council, Abel Alleyne, Colonel of
2 CONC a regiment of foot -"A sober, discreet gentleman of great estate." (Col. Cal. pp 649).
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30 Jan. 1700. List of Gentlemen recommended for Councillors by the Governor of
2 CONC Barbados, Col. Abel Alleyne, Commander of Leeward Regiment of Foot. An old Planter
2 CONC who by his own industry has aquired a very considerable estate. (Ibid pp 44).
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Abel Alleyne left a will which is not recorded.
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