Thomas Stevenson

Slave-owner on Barbados.

1. Will of Thomas Stevenson of St John Barbados [being about soon to depart this island] proved 14/02/1764. He said in the will that his son Alexander Stevenson had contracted a marriage with Ann Husbands, but that the wedding had been delayed by her illness, and he was concerned to confirm the contingent marriage settlement (of £2500 from each family). He authorised the sale of the Pool estate and the enslaved people on it, with preference to his son Alexander as bidder, leaving him £1000 currency if Alexander bought the estate [which he did]. He left £2000 currency to Thomas Stevenson of Guadeloupe, his son and co-partner in Thomas Stevenson & Sons. He left two daughters Ann and Mary £1200 currency each. In a codicil of 1764, recognising the ambiguity over the Pool plantation, he revoked the preference to Alexander Stevenson as purchaser of Pool and the £1000 currency contingent legacy. his executors included his sons-in-law Alexander Graeme, Alexander Harvie and Thomas Harvie.

1. PROB 11/896/121.