Records of Old Barbados. 97 



HOUSE, George Fowler, James Drax, William 

 Hawley, Wm. Sandiford, James Downeman, Thomas 

 Standhope, William Fortescue, Edmund Read, 

 William Dottin, John Leigh, William Hillyard, 

 John Read, Thomas Gibbs, William Gibbs, William 

 Consett, Richard Gregory, Nicholas Butler, 

 Thomas Hothersall. 



There are sundry confirmations dated In 1639, of 

 grants of land made by the Earl of Carlisle to several 

 planters named Robert Woodcocke, Lieut. William 

 Howard, Edward Barren, Wm. Railey, David Row- 

 lev, George Arden, Stephen West, Murphy Pro- 

 BART, Thomas Warnnull, Thomas Punchback, John 

 RosEWELL and others. The terms of such grants may 

 be learned from the following : — 



" I Henry Hawley, Lieut. General and Governourof 

 " Barbados, by virtue of a Commission and order to me 

 " from the Right Hon'ble. James, Earle of Carlisle, con- 

 " firm to Lieut. Wm. Howard, 50 acres, &c., he the said 

 " Wm. Howard yielding and paying on 25th March in 

 " every year 20 lbs. of cleare cotton, or the value thereof, 

 " for each man, woman, or boy, of or above the age of 

 " the yeares of fourteene yeares inhabiting or living in 

 " and upon the aforesaid land and premises," 



1640, loth June. — SAMUEL Andrewes by Bill of Sale, 

 sold a plantation containing 200 acres of land to Capt. 

 James Drax, in consideration of 8,000 lbs. of cotton to 

 be him paid before the * ensealing' of the same deed, 

 provided that the said Captain jAMES Drax hath de- 

 livered to him at the Indian Bridge by the said Samuel 

 Andrewes 20,000 * foot' of sound cedar boards 10 foot 

 long and 3 foot or upwards broad. 



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