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1 SOUR @SIB2@
1 NAME Abel /Alleyne/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1689
2 PLAC Barbados
1 DEAT
2 DATE 1727
1 NOTE Allen or Alleyne (Aged 16) at Trinity Coll. Cambridge. 5 July 1705. Son of Thomas, of
2 CONC Barbados. M.I.School, Blackheath, Kent. Matri. 1705;B.A.1708-9.
2 CONC

Abel Alleyne owned Turners Hall, Barbados and Squerries Court, Co. Kent. England.
2 CONC He was Colonel of the Hole Town regiment and Member of the Assembly for St. Andrews,
2 CONC Barbados. Barbados Census Oct. and Nov. 1715. Col. Abel Alleyne Esq. St. James. 14 men
2 CONC 2 boys. 8 girls.
2 CONC On his marriage in 1713 to Elizabeth Booth, Abel alleyne purchased from Dame Rosamond
2 CONC Booth, widow of Sir William Booth and Mother of Elizabeth, three plantations in St. James
2 CONC St. Peter, and St. Andrew, containing together four hundred and ninety five acres of land
2 CONC with two dwellinghouses, two stone windmills, two boilinghouses, and a large number of
2 CONC slaves, cattle and sheep for 11,000 pounds currency. He settled these plantations on his
2 CONC wife to secure to her a jointure of 400 pounds per annum if he predeceased her.
2 CONC

The plantation in St. James was described in the deeds as bounding on lands of John Scott,
2 CONC John harrison, Arthur Slingsby, Henry Taitt, Thomas Fullerton (then in possesion of Samuel
2 CONC Osbourne), Francis Gamball and Samuel Richards. The plantation in St. Peter was said to
2 CONC be bounding on lands of Hon. Reynold Alleyne, Thomas Rollston, John Gibbons, Jacob Scott,
2 CONC Henry Baker, Melisha Holder, William Davis, and John Scott; and the plantation in St.
2 CONC Andrew was adjoining lands of Richard Edwards, Senior, of George Walker, William
2 CONC Benjamin and Thomas Merrick, deceased. Reference to Mayo's Map of Barbados (1717-1721)
2 CONC shows that the plantationsin St. James and St. Peter was situated about where Sion Hill
2 CONC and Black Bess plantations are to be found on modern (1936) maps, and are almost
2 CONC certainley identical with those estates.
1 NOTE Will of Abel Alleyne Dated April 6, 1726.
2 CONC

I Abel Alleyne of the Parish of St. George, Hanover Sq. London, England. All debts
2 CONC paid and all real estate in England sold. Wife Elizabeth 200 pounds a year. Directions
2 CONC for disposal of the estate if his wife has a child, if no child, then real estate in
2 CONC Barbados and use of personal estate to nephew Thomas Alleyne son late brother of
2 CONC Timothy Alleyne and his heirs. IF he should die then to brother Reynold Alleyne
2 CONC (Abel's brother). If he should die then to his (Abel's) brother John. If he should
2 CONC die to nephew Thomas and his heirs. Poor of parish of St. Andrew Barbados 20 pounds a
2 CONC year. Nephew Thomas Alleyne to pay each of his two uncles REynold and John Alleyne
2 CONC 2,000 pounds a piece when he shall arrive at age of 21, and to his aunt Judith Meynell
2 CONC 1000 pounds.
2 CONC

When said Nephew Thomas Alleyne comes of age he to release all right to lands which
2 CONC his uncles REynold and John Alleyne are in possession and occupation of, namely estates
2 CONC called Mount Alleyne and Four Hills, and "in case he shall think fit to disturb them
2 CONC he shall be obliged to pay his uncle Reynold 500 pounds and his uncle John 1000 pounds
2 CONC above their respective legacys". Very minute instructions as to what shall be done with
2 CONC the estate in case of the death of his nephew Thomas Alleyne.
2 CONC Executors - John Walter, Littleton Meynell. Brothers Reynold and John Alleyne. To have
2 CONC 50 pounds apiece for their trouble. Signed Abel Alleyne.

2 CONC Witnesses. Samuel Forster. Thomas Oliver. Henry Stocker.
2 CONC

Codicil 6 July 1726.
Wife 2,000 pounds English money. Had given brothers Reynold and
2 CONC John Alleyne 2,000 apiece. Left them 1,500 pounds additional. Estate in Surrey to be
2 CONC sold. Brother Meynell, my uncle Walters and George Jefferys Esq. to sell estate.

2 CONC

Codicil sealed and published 7 July 1721 in presence of Francis Hall. William Wood.
2 CONC John Murry.

2 CONC To friend Mrs Margaret Mathews 100gs. Coachman Ned and my man Will 5gs. to man Frank
2 CONC all clothes, linnen, Wiggs. To Susan Smith 5 gs. All servants 40s each. To poor of
2 CONC Albury 5 gs. Signed 8 July 1727. Abel Alleyne. PRoved 20 March 1727. (P.C.C. Farrant
2 CONC 1727/8). Also proved at Barbados. (Barbados records Vol 2 p 469).
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1 FAMS @FB1091@

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