5 skins, incomplete. Indenture regarding the ownership through various trusts of a plantation in the West Indies, including enslaved persons, tenements, messages, plantation utensils, storehouses, cattle, horses, etc. References the islands of Saint Christopher (St. Kitts) and Grenada. A payment of 60,000 pounds was made at some time. Interested parties include: Sir Cecil Wray, William Manning, Samuel Bosanquet. Previous indentures quoted, 1794-10-16

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection consists of more than 300 documents including indentures, deeds, leases, omnibuses, wills, a few court rolls, conveyances, and other legal documents from the fourteenth century through the early twentieth century. Most of them have small wax seals and a few also have large royal seals, some of which are intact in their original metal canisters. There are also a few photostats of documents Wakefield sold before delivering the collection to Northwestern University.