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42. [GRENADA.] [Indenture
recording the sale of a half
share of a sugar plantation
in Grenada by William Snell
Chauncey of Thames
Ditton, Surrey and his wife
Sarah to William Pearce of
St. Swithin’s Lane, London,
gentleman.]
[London, 23 March 1789.]
Indenture on vellum (64 x 52cm) 37
lines, signed and sealed by William
& Sarah Snell Chauncey, with
attached witness statement, verso
with contemporary endorsements and
tax stamps, some dusting to verso
along old folds, overall very good,
offered together with a related indenture
of reconveyance of similar format
dated 24 March 1789.
SALE OF A SUGAR PLANTATION IN THE WEST INDIES
This indenture records the sale of a half share of a sugar plantation on the Carribean island of Grenada in 1789:
“half part of all that plantation or sugar work formerly called … the Mount alias Mount Martha but now Cape-
Sale … being in the parish of Saint Davids formerly called Megrine in the island of Grenada in the West Indies
… being two hundred and forty three acres of land stores mills outhouses and negroe houses … and all other
buildings edifices and erections … together with one hundred and thirty negroe or other slaves to the said plantation
land and premises belonging … and all other the negroe or other slaves horses …”
£450
MEDICINES MADE BY A LONDON DRUGGIST
43. HAGUE, James. James Hague, chymist and druggist,
(no. 15) Catherine – Street, Strand: prepares and
sells the following articles, of the very best quality …
[London, c.1780.] Handbill. Small folio (15.5 x 27cm) printed in
four columns divided by ornaments, printed border cropped on each
side, old folds.
This handbill advertises more than one hundred and sixty medicines,
pills, salts, elixirs, tinctures, herbs and spices prepared
and sold c.1780 by the chemist and druggist James Hague of 15
Catherine Street, Strand: “powder of jalap … flower of brimstone
… tincture of myrrh … Goulard’s extract of lead …
liver of antimony … pungent smelling bottle … elixir of vitriol
… valerian root …” A note at the foot of the sheet advises
that “the following prepared by him alone, and to be had
nowhere else, genuine tincture of Peruvian bark, tincture for
the teeth, lozenges for the piles, and fever powder, as originally
prepared by Dr. James”.
Not traced in ESTC. £250