Convent

[Name] Convent  

An elaborate power of attorney dated 07/03/1794 from George Lee, George Ewing and Thomas Latham (the assignees of John Lane, Thomas Fraser and Thomas Boylston, trading as Lane, Fraser); Sir William Curtis, James Daniell and John Sowerby (assignees of Alexander Willock); and James, John and Joseph Kirkpatrick bankers of Newport [Isle of Wight] to William Priddie and Thomas Tuckett set out the elaborate web of financial ties between Lane, Fraser and Alexander Willock, and in turn the history of mortgages over the New River and Gingerland estates of the Maynard family on Nevis and over the Convent estate of Hubert Guichard Mercer on St Kitts. Under an agreement of 30/08/1784, Alexander Willock accepted bills of exchange for Lane, Fraser and jointly with the two partners provided bonds for £20,000 and £2000 to secure loans to Lane, Fraser, of £10,000 from Thomas Boylston and £1000 from Hannah Urquhart. Lane, Fraser were owed £8727 6s 1d by Hon. Walter Maynard, Josiah Maynard of Malton Yorkshire and Ann Maynard, secured on New River and Gingerland; those estates were also subject to mortgages held from Culling Smith for £5000 and £6000, which were transferred to the Kirkpatricks under a deed of 29 and 30/06/1792 (while an apparently separate amount of £6500 over New River was repaid by Lane, Fraser to Culling Smith) after the Kirkpatricks had agreed to lend Lane, Fraser £10,000, of which £8000 had been disbursed. Separately, Hubert Guichard Mercer owed Lane, Fraser £11,239 5s 4d secured on Convent estate on St Kitts. The power of attorney appointed Priddie and Tuckett to pursue both sets of debtors on behalf of the assignees and creditors in Britain. Common Records 1794-1797, British Library, EAP794/1/1/25, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-25 pp. 217-238.

Common Records 1794-1797, British Library, EAP794/1/1/25, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-25 pp. 217-238.

[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Return of Edward Osborn, owner; returned by William Chambers.

T 71/253 173-175

[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Return of Edward Osborn, deceased owner; returned by Edward Osborn, executor.

T 71/255 83

[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Convent  

Return of Edward Osborn, deceased owner; returned by Thomas Ottley; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

T 71/256 273-274

[Name] Convent  
[Size] 163  
[Crop] sugar  

Listed in St Paul Capisterre as an estate of 163 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 49 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Edward Osborne deceased.

William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)

[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Returned by Thomas Ottley for the estate of Edward Osborn deceased owner.

T 71/258 264

[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Convent  

Return of Edward Osborn deceased, owner; returned by Thomas Ottley; 4 enslaved people were acquired due to his marriage with Susannah Osborn.

T 71/259 113

[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  

Return of Edward Osborn deceased, owner; returned by Thomas Ottley.

T 71/260 116