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Conveyance Edmund Akers to Francis Fane, St. Kitts
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- August 16, 1754 (Creation)
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"Dated 16 August 1754, this indenture records a transfer of title from the St. Kitts planter Edmund Akers (1710-1782) to Francis Fane (c.1698-1757) MP, Commissioner for trade and the plantations, of a sugar plantation of 55 acres in the parish of Christ Church Nicola Town on the island of St. Christopher 'with all and singular dwelling houses, boiling houses, mills, stills, coppers and other ... buildings.' The estate is delineated to the North by lands of John Hutchinson and William Percival, to the East by Scotch Island Gutt and the lands of William Woodley and Samuel Vanderpoole, to the South by lands of Ralph Willett, esquire, and to the West by lands of John Hutchinson.." –Description from Samuel Gedge, bookseller