Abel Alleyne (1689-1727)

Transatlantic slave-owner of Barbados, son of Thomas Alleyne (1668-1717) and Judith Thornhill.

1. Will of Abel Alleyne of St George Hanover Square made 06/04/1726. He ordered the sale of his real estate in England, and left his wife an annuity of £200 sterling p.a. over and above her jointure secured on his estate in Barbados on condition she signed a release of other claims as his widow. If she was pregnant at his death, he left his residual estate to the child if a son, and £10,000 at 18 if a daughter: if no male heir was born, he left his property to Thomas Alleyne son of his [the testator's] brother Timothy Alleyne, subject to Thomas Alleyne paying each of his [Thomas'} uncles Reynold Alleyne and John Alleyne £2000 each and his aunt Judith Meynell [sp?] £1000, on condition Thomas Alleyne paid £20 p.a forever for the poor of the parish of St Andrew Barbados and released all claim over the lands occupied by Reynold Alleyne and John Alleyne, namely Mount Alleyne and Four Hills. If he refused he was to pay Reynold Alleyne a further £500 to and John Alleyne a further £1000. His contingent heir behind Thomas Alleyne were his [the testator's] brother Reynold and then John. In a codicil of 06/07/1726 he left his wife £2000. In a second codicil of 07/07/1727 he tried to make the extant provisions clearer, revoked the legacy of his personalty to Thomas Alleyne and instead directed the personalty and profits of his crops be invested for Thomas Alleyne until he was 21, and reduced the legacies to his two brothers to £1500 each, and appointed individuals to oversee the sale of his property in Surrey. In a final codicil he left monetary legacies to servants.

PROB 11/617/175 Description: Will of Abel Alleyne of Saint George Hanover Square, Middlesex Date: 18 September 1727; Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados Families pp. 16-17 ('First Instalment' from 'Alleyne of Barbados', by Louise R. Allen, originally published in the JBMHS in 1936).