Grant, John Reference CC8/8/129 Edinburgh Commissary Court
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Grant, John [Reference CC8/8/129 Edinburgh Commissary Court]
Margin of Original Document: “5 July 1794 Test. Dative John Grant”
1. 5 July 1794 The testament dative and Inventary of
2. Test. Dative the debt and sum of money which was
3. John Grant addebted and resting owing to Umg’le
4. John Grant late of Jamaica at the time
5. of his decease who died in the Island of
6. Jamaica upon the _____ day of March
7. seventeen hundred and ninety one years
8. Faithfully Made and Given up by a Lieutanant James Grant of Bellentomb
9. brother german of the said defunct &
10. only executor dative quo nearest in kin
11. decerned to him and that by decreet
12. of the Commissarie of Edinburgh as the
13. same dates the twenty fourth of April
14. seventeen hundred and ninety three years
15. in itself more fully bears
16. Follows the Inventary
17. In the First the said Ur_____’l John Grant had 18. addebted and resting owing to him at the time of his decease foresaid the sum of five
19. pounds Sterling part of the sum of ninety
20. five pounds nineteen shillings and one
21. penny half penny Sterling found due to
22. the defunct by Sir James Grant of Grant
23. Baronet on the death of Mary Grant re-
24. siding at Ellach liferenter of said sum
25. in a process of Multiplepoinding before
26. the Court of Session at the instance
27. of Sir James Grant against the said defunct
28. and others executors and legatees of Humphrey
29. Grant Esquire late of the Island of Jamaica
30. by decreed of preference before the Court of
31. Session dated the Seventh day of July seven-
32. teen hundred and ninety years Extend-
33. ing the said sum of five pounds Sterling
34. in Scots money to sixty pounds
35. Summ of the Inventary _____ ‘__
36. Masters Andrew Belfour _____ Cautiones Capt. 37. John Grant of Rippachy, dated the fifth day of February one thousand seven hundred
38. and ninety four years.
Notes
1. Online Request For Will: September, 2007
2. Spelling & grammar as in original
3. Lines as in original
4. Blue font = unintelligible & unknown words in original text.
Questions
1. Who was this John Grant? Parents? Wife? Children.
2. Where & when was this John Grant born?
3. Where was he in Jamaica? During what years? Occupation?
4. Who was Lieutenant James Grant of Bellentomb?
5. What does "brother german" mean?
6. Who was Sir James Grant of Grant Baronet on the death of Mary Grant residing at Ellach?
7. Who was Humphrey Grant Esquire late of t he Island of Jamaica?
8. How should the expression "late of" be interpreted?
9. Who is Masters Belfour?
10. Who is Capt. John Grant of Rippachy? A relation?