Martha Fowler (née Haslin)

Sister and heiress of the resident planter John Haslin, and dying at Brook Green in London in 1817.

1. NOTICE is hereby given, at the request of Bartholomew Fowler, Esquire, Attorney of Mrs. Martha Fowler, Heiress of the Estate of John Haslin, deceased - That all persons having any business or transactions with said Estate, will please address themselves to the undersigned; he having taken over from the Honourable A. Meertens all the estate and effects of the deceased. B. Fowler. Secretary's Office, August 8, 1812. Charles Wilday, Sworn Clerk.

2. Will of Martha Fowler widow of Brook Green proved 03/06/1817. In the will she made a number of small monetary legacies and left the estates of 't Loo and Friendship in Demerara which had come to her under the will of her brother John Haslin to her sons Bartholomew and Richard Fowler.

1. Essequebo & Demerary Royal Gazette 08/08/1812, accessed via http://www.vc.id.au/edg/18120808edrg.html 19/05/2014.

2. PROB 11/1593/31; the estate of 't Loo was shown as an A[bandoned] S[ugar] estate in 1798, 'A la cote orientale de Demerarie', owned by John Haslin, Carte Generale...Demerarie 'Liste des habitations...' [1798] University of Amsterdam Library 'Suriname 1599-1975' http://dpc.uba.uva.nl.