284 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



permission of his majesty, but who 

 does not hold any office within the 

 forest. 



" New Lodge was granted by his 

 majesty, with the office of ranger 

 of New Lodge Walk, for life, to 

 her highness princess Sophia of 

 Gloucester, by letters patent, in the 

 year 1798. This lodge, as her 

 highness states, in her explanation 

 of her office, is in such a dilapi- 

 dated state, that it is scarce habita- 

 ble by the servants who are put into 

 it to take care of it. There are 

 about twenty acres of grass land 

 attached to this lodge. 



" Swinley Lodge, with its inclo- 

 sures,containingabout one hundred 

 and ninety acres, is always occupied 

 by the master or keeper of his ma- 

 jesty's stag hounds, who is at the 

 same time ranger and keeper of 

 Swinley Walk, and circuitor bailiff 

 and chief forester of Battel Baili- 

 wick. 



" The state of Bigshot Lodge is 

 much more ruinous than that of 

 New Lodge, and is in no degree 

 whatever habitable ; there is a large 

 quantity of building belonging to 

 it, and was for many years inha- 

 bited by the late major-general 

 Cox and his family, but has been 

 long deserted." 



2. Pedigree nf Madame Buona- 

 partL — Martinique. — In the year 

 1620 a ship arrived at this island, 

 with a cargo of Ebo-negro slaves 

 from Africa. Mons. Fontange, a 

 planter, became a purchaser, and 

 bought a girl named Quasheba, 

 whobeing a likely h'lssey, the driver 

 of the estate, named Quamino, 

 took her to wife. By Quasheba 

 he had a large family, and a daugh- 

 ter, a comely jade, called Cunha, 

 whom the under driver, called 

 Quaco, took for a wife. Quaco 



had five children by her; one of 

 the daughters, called Cumba, was 

 taken into keeping by the white 

 carpenter of the estate, who had 

 three cliildren by her, one a daugh- 

 ter called Adelaide, was taken as a 

 mistress by the overseer, who be- 

 came so fond of her, that he pur- 

 chased her freedom : by Adelaide 

 he had five children, one a daugh- 

 ter, sv'ho was kept by a captain 

 Delamar, of the marine, by whom 

 she had a daughter, to whom the 

 captain, on his decease, left his 

 whole fortune. This daughter, 

 called Odun, or Nocoden, was 

 married to a planter of the name 

 of Nonie. This Nonie had a large 

 family, whom he sent to France 

 for their education; one of his 

 daughters married a French mer- 

 chant of the name of Lochmere, 

 established in eminence at Guada- 

 loupe; and the other, a planter of 

 the name of Francis, at Martinique; 

 by this marriage was a girl (Buona- 

 parte's wife's mother) who married 

 a Monsieur la Pagerie. 



Monsieur la Pagerie had a 

 daughter, the present wife of Buo- 

 naparte, who was a wanton almost 

 from her birth, for at the age of 

 thirteen she was debauched by her 

 mother's two servants, a black and 

 a mulatto, by whom she proved 

 pregnant. The poor mother ap- 

 plied to a doctor, who furnished 

 her with a potion for a certain pur- 

 pose, which was effected, and the 

 negro and mulatto shipped off to 

 the Spanish main. A count Beau- 

 harnois becoming enamoured with 

 Mademoiselle la Pagerie, married 

 her. Whilst Beauharnois was in 

 America, his wife was brought to 

 bed at Martinique of a mulatto 

 boy, which was reported by the 

 family to be dead, but kept upon 



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