| Description | (i) Deed of settlement of Lady Frances Stapleton's plantation at Nevis, 10 April 1701. Contains important pedigree information; description of Russell's Rest one of the most valuable Stapleton assets
(ii) Bargain and sale
(iii) Attorney General's opinion on certain legal difficulties at St. Kitts over transference of lands to Sir William Stapleton. Full digest of the case, with documents, 1728. Includes attorney's unfavourable comment on the outlook and methods of some of the West Indian land commissioners
(iv) Indenture concerning the transference to Sir William Stapleton of certain lands in the quarter of Basseterre in St. Kitts, 3 June 1735
(v) Indenture regarding the sale of lands in the town of Basseterre, 17 May 1737. Refers to previous articles of agreement bearing various dates.
(vi) Will and codicil of Lady Frances Stapleton, 29 May 1735 and 16 August 1735. Lady Stapleton bequeathed her interests in St. Kitts to her eldest son (Sir William Stapleton), those in Nevis to her second son (James Russell Stapleton).
(vii) Will of Lady Frances Stapleton, 15 February 1741-1742 [illegible].
(viii) Will of James Russell Stapleton, 1 January 1739-1740
(ix) Papers in the Chancery suit of Schutz v. Conway or Schutz v Stapleton, 1746-1748, which arose out of certain dispositions in the will of General Hamilton.
(x) Indenture, 21 March 1764.
(xi) Letters between James Wright, Ellis Yonge and Mrs Stapleton, 1762 mainly. Also, calculations prepared by the London merchants, etc., to help arrive at an equitable value of the eighth part of the St. Kitts plantation held by Sir James Wright and his wife. |