Charles Spooner

1. Will of Charles Spooner of Harley Street Cavendish Square proved 02/07/1790. In the will he rehearsed his marriage settlement with his present wife Mary Burt, under which he charged estates in St George Basseterre, St Peter and St Mary Cayon with an annuity for her of £500 p.a. He had, he said, with the consent of his wife since sold some of the estates so that the security was only over those in St Mary Cayon. He had also settled a further £500 p.a. on her secured on an estate called The Levell or Prospect, under mortgage to Richard Oswald for £10,000: the annuity had not been recorded according to St Kitts law. Accordingly, he made a new annuity under the will of £700 p.a. instead of this second £500 p.a., and he provided an annuity of £200 p.a. to Jane Spooner, widow of his deceased brother Hungerford, both of which were to be secured on all his estates in St Kitts, Tortola and Antigua. He entailed his estates on St Kitts and Tortola to his nephew Hungerford Spooner jun. (q.v.), and his estate on Antigua to his nephew Peter [Theodore] Shaw (q.v.) (he held half of Blubber Valley and had the reversion of the other half). His residual heiress was his niece Isabella Spooner.

PROB 11/1194/18.