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and was at first known as the " Indian bridge towne." It 

 is so termed in the following deeds : — 



1647, 28 Feby. — Coll. Wm. Ffortescue of the Island of Barbados, to 

 Richard Osier of the same island, gent. Demise of a parcell of ground 

 situate at ye Indian Bridge Towne, in the parish of St. Michaell in ye 

 Island aforesaid, bounded by a parcell of land granted unto Captaine 

 Gerard Hawtayne, windward, and ye land of John Thornhill leeward, 

 and fronting upon ye house of Captain Edward Chamberlane. The 

 deedcontains a Covenant by Osier to build a house covered " with tyle 

 or shingle." 



On 12 August 1653, Coll. Wm. Ffortescue conveyed 

 to John Robert, ground over against the Ship-Careene 

 at the Indian Bridge towne, abutting neare unto the 

 house novv in the occupation of CHRISTOPHER Daniell, 

 and * * * commonly called the Stepping Stone. 



The following record is conne6led with the making of 

 Bridgetown, and the terms of the lease are worth noting: — 



1654, 20 Dec— Lease between Thomas Noell of Mount Clapham, in 

 the island of Barbados, and John Browne, of land at the Bridge towne 

 for 15 yeares. Lessee to build a house, to be left at expiration of said 

 term. Rent £i^ sterling or value thereof in sugar, ginger, indigo, 

 cotton wool, or tobacco " and for further acknowledgment or quit rent for 

 ye same, ye said Browne shall bring or cause to be brought unto 

 ye mansion house of him ye said Noell at Mount Clapham uppon St. 

 Thomas' day before Christmas, one Capon of 12 months old or two 

 other dunghill ffowles." 



Swan Street and High Street are mentioned in a deed 

 of 1659, as is also '* ye Boare at ye Bridge" and on 21 

 July 1861, Edward Jones sells to Bartholomew 

 Washington for 16,000 lbs. muscovado sugar, a place 

 in Cheapside, in the City of Bridgetown, 



The following is a grandiloquent document: — .^ 



1653, 7 Feb. — We John of Brageslonge, one of ye privy Counc; 

 of ye King of Ffrance, the first diredor of ye Companie of j 

 North Cape, and John Chartraine De Plessy, Councellour of ye sai.^ 

 King and the first Lieutent Generall of the Constablyof ye said Kingdor^ 



