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Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.

Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the Alexander family's instructions to sell their 'family property' at Herne Bay for £1,400 to Mr Collard 'alias Horne'. The papers include a draft 'Schedule of Title Deeds and Writings relating to a messuage Windmill and lands at Herne Bay' dating from 1824 through to 1879, the property having been sold by the Charles brothers (Edmund and Charles) and Henry Stanley (Eliza's widower) to [James] Alexander on 31 August 1869. The firm of solicitors is Emmerson & Co, Sandwich, Kent.

Legal papers relating to the sale of Herne Bay windmill.

Solicitor's papers, drafts and accounts relating to the sale of "a freehold house windmill land at Herne Bay" by the Alexander family to "Horne otherwise Collard". The documents include: a very clear schedule of "title deeds & writings relating to a messuage windmill land & hereditaments at Herne Bay in the County of Kent"; the Alexander family's solicitor's draft responses to requisitions on title raised by the purchaser's solicitor, Walter Furley of Canterbury; the cash account of the Alexander family's solicitors (Emmerson & Co of Sandwich), showing the shares received by each of eight Alexander brothers and the succession duty paid;

Research materials, photocopies and clippings

Stored with Nicholl's formal reports and correspondence on Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill these research materials comprise:
(1) a photocopy of a late 18th c. to early 19th c return listing enslaved persons working on Scawen Kenrick Gibbon's estate, the Morgan Lewis sugar plantation.
(2) a faxed copy of a page from a late 19th c. order book showing an order for "Morgan Lewis, Est Barbados" for two "vertical roll 23 ¼ x 35" in 1880 and 1881 and an order for "Windmill gear" dated 1892.
(3) a short booklet on the Morgan Lewis Sugar Windmill produced by the Barbados National Trust (undated).
(4) 4 editions of "Our Heritage", the Newsletter of the Barbados National Trust (March 1994, September 1995, June 1996 and September 1997) all of which referencing the Morgan Lewis restoration programme.
(5) 3 newspaper/magazine clippings/copies relating to the progress of the Morgan Lewis restoration programme (1997-1998).

Nicholls, David, (1938 - 2020) millwright

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