Records of Old Barbados. 109 



founders of the well-known College, the pi6luresque 

 buildings of which are one of the sights of Barbados. It 

 is not easy to ascertain who was the first of the fannily to 

 emigrate, but as early as 1646, there are the following :— 



1646, 15 Feb. — Conveyance by Wm. Thorn of 60 acres in St. John's to 

 Capn. Chr. Codrington, joyning John Ross East, Ensign Robert Brown, 

 Westward. 



1647, 9 Oft. — Ensign Robert Benson conveys to Cap. Chr. Codrington, 

 half a plantation of 1 10 acres in St. John's. 



1647, 10 Sep. — Cap. Chr. Codrington, conveys to Capn. George 

 Martin, 20 acres of the pin. lately purchased of Mr. William Houghton, 

 parish St. John, going into lands of James Edmon, West, to Mr. 

 Robert Bridges, South, and to parish lands of St. John, North and 

 East. 



1647, 23 061. — Chr. Codrington assigns lease of 60 acres, to Capt. 

 George Martin, J. Pylles, Jas. Gouldingham, Church Wardens of 

 S. John. 



"Pylles" may be the former mode of spelling the 

 name of Pile, now borne by a distinguished family of 

 Barbados. 



On 20 March, 1641, Christopher Codrington sold 

 a plantacion conteyninge one hundred acres of land, ** to 

 Jonathan Hawtayne, and this with one halfe part of ye 

 plantacion, commonly called Charles Fort, lying by the 

 Sea Syde, in the prsh. of St. James, nere the Hole," con- 

 taining 400 acres of land, were in 1643, mortgaged to 

 Capn. Daniell Fletcher, as Security for the payment 

 of the full and juste " sume of 30,000 lbs. of good sound 

 " well condiconed and merchantable tobaccoe made up 

 ** in rowle and wreath, &c." 



Christopher Codrington and Gertrude his wife, 

 on II October, 1659, conveyed to Edward Parris, land 

 in St. Michael's parish, lying between lands, late of Lt. 

 Colonel Bix and late of FRANCIS .... deceased. 



