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  • Title Barbados Archives 
    Source ID S1658 
    Text Barbados Archives, Black Rock Main Rd, Bridgetown, Barbados

    Deeds 260/67 10 Nov 1815
    Rev John Hamlet Gittens of St George above said clerk and his wife Luctretia, late Lucretia Hall widow and formerly Lucretia Ostrehan, spinster, of the first part;
    Thomas Ostreham Esq of St James of the second part;
    Elvira Ostrehan of St. Michael, widow, of the third part;
    Joseph Ostreham of St. Michael, son of Elvira Ostrehan, of the fourth part;
    Samuel Perry of the City of Bristol and George Gibb the younger of Bristol, of the fifth part;
    Whereas Lucretia Ostrehan widow deceased, the grandmother of the said Thomas Ostrehan, Lucretia Gittens and Joseph Ostrehan duly made and published her last will and testment in writing bearing the date 17 feb 1799 and hereby gave and devised and bequeathed unto her two friends Richard Mahon Esq and Benjamin King Reece and their survivors her land in St. Michael called "Friendship" and all slaves and buildings, etc.....
    Mahon and Reece should permit her son Joseph Ostrehan to have the free and uninterupted use of the estate.....
    Daughter-in-law Elvira...
    Thomas Ostrehan the son of her son Joseph by his late wife...
    Leaving four children ant the time of his decease
    Thomas Ostrehan a son by former wife
    Lucretia Gittens
    George Ostrehan now deceased without issue
    Joseph Ostrehan 
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    Individuals: 1
    Lucretia