39.2 Andrew Durnford His Will and second life in Bermuda West Indies

Andrew Durnford commenced a second life in West Indies with Elizabeth Lucas.

Elizabeth was born in St George in 1764, and died in 1840 in Auburn Cayua, New York

She and Andrew met sometime before 1789, and lived at Stewart Hall.  They rented Stewart Hall.


George Tucker's widow Mary lived in Stewart Hall until her death in 1787.
 The house was then rented to Andrew Durnford between 
1789 and 1791 while he was improving the colony's fortifications and building Durnford. 

He lived in Stewart Hall with his mistress, Elizabeth Lucas, with 
whom he had six children. Hannah Stockton, who was George Tucker's niece, 
purchased the house at auction in 1795.

 She died there two years later and the house went to her two young children

In Andrew's will he mentions his good friend Robert Tucker, who perhaps was the son of George Tucker who owned the house that he and Elizabeth rented.

Robert Tucker married Frances Fowle. He could be the son of John Tucker and Mary Jennings.
                                   This Robert was born c 1748 d 1777
George could be the son of Henry Tucker 1710 and Frances Tudor. Born 1710 and died 1761.  
                                    The area was known as Southampton Bermuda

The Tuckers are all related, and the family had been in Bermuda since the 1600's.




Having lived on a small tropical island, everyone knows everyone else!

Perhaps the lives of the residents can best be gleaned from some Island history.

·  1775. US Congress authorized Mr Edward Stiles, of Pennsylvania and a former Bermudian, to send the brig "Sea Nymph" Sam Stobel master, to Bermuda with cargo (such as lumber, soap, and candles).

 ·  1776. May.  The sloop "Betsy & Ann", Ben Tucker master, was given permission to exchange 1700 bushels of salt and two puncheons of rum for provisions at Greenwich, Cumberland, NJ.  

1776. Summer.  St George Tucker, his father and one other purchased the sloop "Dispatch" to smuggle rice, loaded with salt at Turk's Islands in Nov 1776, and proceeded to Virginia and sold the cargo. 

·  1776. Summer. Admiral Lord Howe sent two Royal Navy sloops of war to interrupt Bermuda trade with the rebellious colonists of America, the "Nautilus", Capt John Collins, (arrived Jun 19, departed Oct 20 1776), and the "Galatea", Capt Thomas Jordan, (arrived Sep 7 1776).

·  1776. St George Tucker purchased the sloop "Adelphi" for trade as he had the "Dispatch" above. He apparently chartered the sloop to Norton and Beale, master George Gibbs.

    1777 Bridger Goodrich bought a fine Bermuda sloop, a prize of the "Galatea" and refitted her as a privateer. On his initial commission he took 5 prizes of which two were Bermudians which he brought back to Bermuda. His seizure of Bermudian vessels raised a storm of indignation particularly at the Western end of the Island and Henry Tucker of Somerset formed an association to boycott Bridger. 

      The latter took this opposition in his stride and engaged himself to marry Elizabeth Tucker, a kinswoman of Henry; the association's threat took little effect. 

·  1795. January. First elections of officials in Hamilton. Daniel Tucker, Mayor; Richard Peniston, Joseph Stowe, William Hall, Aldermen; Benjamin Cox, George Harvey, Richard Darrell, William Morris and one other as Councilors


May  6, 1795  At the town meeting!

The memorial of Major Hare and the letter of Captain Hicks were then read.
"Mr Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assembly, I take an early opportunity of laying before you sundry accounts which have been lately delivered me by the Honorable Captain Durnford. Notwithstanding these expenses were incurred before my arrival here, yet, as I understand the services were undertaken and performed at the request of my predessor, I cannot but recommend them to the consideration of the Honorable House, not doubting..................



1781. 40 acres of cotton were found growing in Tucker's Town, which led directly to the British government encouraging the planting of cotton as a commercial crop in 1788.

1783  Andrew Durnford arrives

       1793  The Governor asks him to rebuild the forts   (That would be Gov Hamilton)

       1793  Andrew is Mayor.

Town Hall

In the period between 1783 and 1789 Andrew played a large part in the affairs of St George.  During his life in Bermuda the following were the Governors.

1782–1788 William Browne

1788–1794 Henry Hamilton (Lt. Gov.)

1794–1796 James Crawford

1796 Henry Tucker

1796 William Campbell

1796–1798 Henry Tucker

William Browne was an American loyalist born in Massachusetts 

Hamilton returned to Canada in 1782, becoming Lieutenant-Governor, and later Deputy-Governor at Quebec. He went on to serve as Governor of Bermuda from 1785 to 1794, and of Dominica from 1794 until his death in 1796.  In March 1795, at age 61, Hamilton married 25-year-old Elizabeth Lee from Banbury, Oxfordshire, a daughter of Colonel Lee. They had one daughter, Mary Anne Pierpoint Hamilton, who died in 1871 unmarried and without children. Hamilton died on the island of Antigua in 1796, while still Governor of Dominica.

James Crawford was an Equerry to Charlotte of Mecklenbug-Streilitz wife of King George III known as Princess Charlotte.

Lt. Col. William Campbell

Major in 24th Foot 1 July 1788; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 9 September 1794; Lieutenant-Colonel 22 September 1795; Governor of Bermuda 1796; died on Bermuda 2 December 1796.

1796. 2nd December. The death in Bermuda at the age of 46 of His Excellency, Governor William Campbell, Lieutenant Colonel of the 24th Regiment of Foot, who died of fever then raging in the colony only a few days after his arrival. He occupied his office for only 8 days.

Durnford House now a private residence in  S Georges

When Andrew died he mentioned various lands in his will, including is house on Styles Hill.  There is no known place now, but it could have been Stiles Hill after

He also mentions lands purchased from John Grove Palmer at Mullett Bay Glebe Islands, Harney Islands.  John Grove Palmer was the Attorney General of Bermuda.

Map indicate the location of Mullett near the Waterfront

Who was Elizabeth Lucas?   Some Lucas research is included.

Elizabeth must have been born into a family of good standing, as Andrew himself became the mayor, and was involved in the political climate of the island.


There have been Lucas's on the Island since the 1600's.  Some were merchants, some in the military, all had very large tracts of land, and there is a huge amount of research available, except of course for Elizabeth.

 In his will Andrew mentions her being born in England, however on her grave it notes she was born in St George, that may be a mistake on the part of her relatives.

After his death in 1798, Elizabeth moved with the children to Colchester Connecticut, and from research reveals she is listed in British Aliens in US in 1812

They had 6 children, two who died as infants.

Elizabeth                       1790   -   1883     Died Auburn Cayuga New York State  m  Thomas                                                                       Manwaring Skinner
John Durnford               1791      1867      m   Mary Elizabeth Skinner d Syracuse
Thomas                         1792       1792      Died St George Bermuda
Henry William              1793       1863     m   Clarissa Leonard   d  Syracuse  Onondaga New Yor
James Henry                 1794  -    1867     m  Louisa Hibbard d  Syracuse Onodaga  New York
Martha                          1796   -   1796



The lives of their children.

  (at this point no relationship between Bermuda and Auburn has been discovered, research continuing)


Elizabeth married Thomas Skinner in 1817.  They had several children, again losing some as infants.  Thomas opened the first newspaper in the Auburn area, called The Auburn Gazette.  He was in partnership and in 1818 the paper changed its name to Cayuga Republican.  In 1863 he united the paper with the Free Press, and then was involved in the clothing industry.

John married Mary Elizabeth Skinner from Colchester.  They had 7 children however at the time of his mother's death in 1840, there were only two still  alive.

Children of John and Elizabeth

Andrew Durnford                  1816   -  1853
John Durnford Jnr                  1818  -  1841
Mary Elizabeth Durnford       1821 -   1825
Clarissa Maria Durnford        1823     1825
Mary Elizabeth Durnford       1824     1829
George Durnford                    1830     1831
George Hibbard Durnford      1836     1861

John's story of his life in Syracuse is quite interesting.  His son John Durnford Junior was an Attorney at Law, and was unfortunately killed in an explosion in the town in 1841


John Durnford, Jr. (son of Justice Durnford), was a lawyer of flattering prospects and was endowed with uncommon talents.  1841 Syracuse explosion

John Durnford established the first newspaper in Syracuse - Onondaga Gazette April 1823 sold it 1829  his brother Henry also lived in Syracuse

 The following extracts from the Syracuse History.

Monday, July 5th, 1824, marks the date of the first celebration of our National

Independence ever held in this city. "The Syracuse Gazette" of July 7th, 1824,

published by Mr. Durnford, gives the following account of the celebration : 

At the morn's early dawn the day was ushered in by the thunder of cannon bursting upon

the stillness of the hour; and at sunrise a National Salute was fired from Prospect ,

on the north side of the village. As the spring columns of the cannon's smoke 

disappeared the star spangled banner of our country was then seen floating majestically

in the air, from the top of a towering staff erected on the summit of this hill for the

occasion. At about 12 o'clock, a procession was formed in front of Mr. Williston's

Hotel, under the direction of Col. A. P. Granger, marshal of the day. 

An escort, consisting of Captain Rossiter's company of Light Horse, an Artillery Company

under the command of Lieut. J. D. Rose, and Capt. H. W. Durnford's company 

of Riflemen, with their music swelling and banners flying, preceded the procession

which moved to the new meeting house — (the old Baptist Church.) Here the usual 

exercises took place, and an oration was pronounced by J. R. Sutermeister, Esq., 

which was received by the large assembly with a universal burst of approbation. 

The procession then formed again and moved through the village to the summit of 

Prospect Hill, where under a bower a numerous company partook of a cold collation

prepared by Mr. Williston (landlord of the Mansion House).

The principal object of attraction on that day was the Rifle company, composed of the 

young men of the county, and commanded by H. W. Durnford, Lieut. James H. Luther 

and Orderly Zophar H. Adams.

John Durnford, Jr., attorney at law, aged 23.  from the explosion Coroners Report

That Hugh T. Gibson, Ezra H. Hough, Thomas Betts, Elijah Jones, Zebina Dwight,

 William Conklin, Benjamin F. Johnson, Elisha Ladd, George W. Burdick, Isaac Stanton,

 William B. Close, George Gorman,Horace T. Goings, Charles A. Momt. Loren L. Cheney,

 Horatio N. Cheney, John Durnford, Jr., Hanson Maynard, Noah Hoyt, Joel Kohlhamer,

 Matthew Smelt, James M. Barker, Charles Miller, Benjamin T.Baker, Charles Austin, came

to their deaths on the night of Friday, the 20th of August, 1841, by the explosion 

of 27 or 28 kegs of gunpowder in a carpenter's and joiner's shop, then on fire, in 

the village of Syracuse, and which the said deceased and others were attempting to 

extinguish; that, in the belief of the jury, the said shop was set on fire by some

person or persons to the jurors unknown; that the said powder was the property of

William Malcolm and Albert H. Hudson of Syracuse, and was secretly stored in said shop

by the said Albert A. Hudson and Charles Goings, the owner of said shop, with the 

knowledge and consent of said William Malcolm, contrary to the published 

and known ordinances of the village of Syracuse, and without the cognizance or 

consent of the Trustees thereof. 

On the corner now occupied by Messrs. Stone & Ball, jewelers, and Messrs. 

Sabey & Weaverhatters, there stood in 1824 a two story frame building, known as 

the "Coffin Block." The name was given to the block on account of its fancied 

resemblance to that receptacle for the dead. 

The first and second stories on the extreme corner were then occupied by 

John Durnford, Esq., as a book store, lottery ticket and printing office. 

From this corner the first number of the "Onondaga Gazette," the first paper ever

issued in this city — was printed by John Durnford, our present worthy Justice of 

the Peace. The first number was issued Wednesday morning, April 2d, 1823. 

In his "Address" to the public, the publisher lays down the following views and 

principles :

In 1824 Henry W. Durnford occupied the first store east of the Syracuse Gazette office,

as a drug store. He also kept an assortment of groceries, crockery and liquors, and 

transacted a large and profitable business. 

The ground upon which the Granger Block now stands was, in 1824, a fine little green

meadow. That year Messrs.John Durnford, Archy Kasson and John Rodgers were 

appointed a committee by the Episcopal Society, authorized and empowered to select

a site for a church edifice. 

Mr. Durnford advocated the selection of this meadow as the proposed site. The other 

members of the committee offered an objection to the lot "that it was too far

from the village" but finally coincided with Mr. Durnford in his choice, and the 

committee reported accordingly. 

Henry Durnford resided in a small white house on the ground now occupied by Gay's Hotel.

 The house fronted the south. He had a white fence around his lot, and a beautiful

 flower garden in front of his house. It was a very pretty, cozy little dwelling. 

John Durnford occupied a dwelling west of Mr. Kasson's. These two houses' had 

very  pretty yards in front, filled with flower beds and shrubbery. 

The first village election in Syracuse was held at the school house on 

the 3d day of May, 1825, when the following officers were elected : Joshua 

Forman, President; Amos P. Granger, Moses D. Burnet, Heman Walbridge, 

John Rogers, Trustees ; James Webb, Alfred Northam, Thomas Spencer, 

Assessors; John Durnford, Treasurer; John Wilkinson, Clerk; Henry 

Young, Pound-master ; Jesse D. Rose, Henry W. Durnford, Constables; 

Daniel Gilbert, Justice of the Peace.


At the meeting of May 8, several important measures were adopted.

Grocer's licenses were then in vogue and were issued to Joseph Thompson, 

Henry Newton, Stephen W. Cadvvell, Paschal N. Thurber, Joel Owen, 

Peter van Olinda, Henry W. Durnford, lla\-den Rice, William T. Arnold,

The first tax levied upon the inhabitants after the incorporation of the 

village of Syracuse, was in the fall of 1825. It amounted to $250, a striking 

contrast to the  sum now levied upon the city of Syracuse for municipal

 purposes.

 Henry W. Durnford was the collector, and John Durnford was his bail. 

Henry W. Durnford, police constable in 1825, was in the grocery trade in 1840. 

In 1842 he was village president, and an alderman in 1848-49. 

He was buried Sept. 4, 1863, aged 70 years. 

St. Paul's church, Syracuse, was originally a mission of Zion church, Onondaga Hill, 
but had its present organization in 1828, John Durnford and Samuel Wright were the 
wardens; Amos P. Granger, Archy Kasson, Mather Williams, James Mann, 
Matthew W. Davis, Barent Filkins, Othniel Q. Williston and Jabez Hawley, vestrymen. 

Bishop Hobart first visited it that year. 

John Durnford died May 19, 1867, aged 76 years. He founded the Onondaga Gazette in

 April, 1823, and was long a prominent man. 

Henry married Clarisa Leonard in 1815,  There appears to be two children  Lucy and Henry           William Durnford.

His life in Syracuse, is told with that of his brother John.  They returned to Onondaga County and ran a boarding house.

James Andrew Durnford married Louisa Hubbard later in life.  He may have been living in Bermuda as from the will, he was there in 1840.  Louisa reared  a child of one of her relatives


James died in 1867.

South Salina Street Syracus NY Durnford House boarding house

  



WILL OF ELIZABETH LUCAS (DURNFORD) MISTRESS OF MAJOR ANDREW DURNFORD

Durnford Elizabeth L : Salina Jany 30 1840 May 28 1840 Made and duly executed in Bermuda.

Cod witnessed by James Taylor and John Fisher both of St. Georges' Bermuda 65 shares
standing in my name in the Butcher's and Drover's Bank, N.Y. 

Son, John Durnford and Rufus Hibbard trustees to this addition To Methodist Chapel, St.
 George's Bermuda 

To dau; Elizabeth Durnford, now Skinner at her decease to her son,
Thos.Durnford Skinner 

To Son, John Durnford:  at his decease to Mary Elizabeth Durnford to enable her to bring up
 my gd. son (infant) George Hibbard Durnford 

To son, Wm. Henry Durnford

To son, James Andrew Durnford : to Louisa Durnford so long as she remains his widow.

To dau-in-law, Mary Elizabeth Durnford in trust for infant gd son, George Hibbard Durnford

To gd son, Andrew Durnford Jany 30 1840:

 Wit: John Durnford, Jr. student- at-law, Syracuse. Hannah B. Johnston

John Durnford of Syracuse says

:Elizabeth Durnford died Jany 30 last leaving this deponent, and Henry W. Durnford :

 James Andrew Durnford City of St. George, Island of Bermuda:

 Elizabeth Skinner wife of Thos M. Skinner of Auburn Cayuga County, N.Y. next of kin and of full age: 

left a cod to a will date 12th of Sept 1839 and by which this deponent and Rufus Hibbard of sd village of Syracuse are trustees and extrs thereof

Dated April 10 1840 (John Durnford)

 Abstracts of Wills in Onondaga County, New York, 1791-1841, Vol. G, found in the online 
databases of the New England Historical & Genealogical Society.

In his will the house is known as Stile Hill

1775. US Congress authorized Mr Edward Stiles, of Pennsylvania and a former Bermudian, to send the brig "Sea Nymph" Sam Stobel master, to Bermuda with cargo (such as lumber, soap, and candles)
.

Port Royal House was erected in 1762 by Edward Stiles, a wealthy
merchant and shipowner, who like many others emigrated from Bermuda to
the Bahama island of New Providence and thence to Philadelphia about the
middle of the eighteenth century, to engage in American commerce. He was
the great-grandson of John Stiles, one of the first settlers of Bermuda
in 1635, and the son of Daniel Stiles, of Port Royal Parish, a vestryman
and warden of Port Royal Church and a member of the Assembly of Bermuda
in 1723. Commerce between the American colonies and Bermuda and the West
Indies was extensive, and Stiles' business prospered. He had a store in
Front Street between Market and Arch streets, and a town house in Walnut
Street between Third and Fourth streets. In summer, like other men of
his station and affluence, he lived at his countryseat, surrounded by
many slaves, on an extensive plantation in Oxford township, near
Frankford, that he had purchased from the Waln family. To it he gave the
name Port Royal after his birthplace in Bermuda.

There are so many English and Irish families who settled in Bermuda.

Perhaps this line would be one to consider!  He changed wives quite regularly!

The Eliza Lucas mentioned ran three plantations by age 16.  She may very well be a cousin of Elizabeth's.

Elizabeth (known as Eliza) Lucas was born on December 28, 1722, in Antigua, British West Indies, where she grew up at Cabbage Tree, one of her family's three sugar plantations on the island. She was the eldest child of Lieut.-Colonel George Lucas, of Dalzell's Regiment of Foot in the British Army, and his wife Ann (probably Mildrum) Lucas.

She had two brothers, Thomas and George, and a younger sister Mary (known to her family as Polly). Col. and Mrs. Lucas sent all their children to London for schooling. It was customary for elite colonists to send boys to England for their education when they might be as young as 8 or 9.
Girls would not be sent until their mid teens when nearing marriageable age. During this period, many parents believed that girls' futures of being wives and mothers made education in more than "the three "R"s" and social accomplishments less necessary.


But Eliza's ability was recognized. She treasured her education at boarding school, where studies included French and music, but she said her favorite subject was botany. She wrote to her father that she felt her “education, which [she] esteems a more valuable fortune than any [he] could have given [her], … Will make me happy through my future life.”

After three years of persistence and many failed attempts, Eliza proved that indigo could be successfully grown and processed in South Carolina. While she had first worked with an indigo processing expert from Montserrat, she was most successful in processing dye with the expertise of a black indigo-maker of African descent whom her father hired from the French West Indies.   She and her husband Charles Pinckey whom she married in 1844 lived in Charleston, and she was the first woman to be inducted into the Charleston Hall of Fame.

Thomas Lucas (c.1720-1784) MP, was a West India merchant, treasurer of Guy's Hospital 1764-1774 and then president of its board of governors until his death.

His directorships included the Union Society in 1759, the South Sea Company in 1763, and the Union Fire Office in 1764. He held them all until he died.

Thomas Lucas's West Indies interests were in St Kitts, Leeward Islands and, in partnership with William Coleman, as a London agent for other Leeward Islands planters.

He was very probably a close relative of Eliza Lucas, born in Antigua Leeward Islands in 1723.

Lucas married three times: Ann Jones, Mary Page and Elizabeth Payne; within his circle of business associates but left no surviving issue. His widow, Elizabeth daughter of Rev. Joseph Payne and a niece of Lewis Way a previous president of Guy's Hospital, married John Julius Angerstein. Their portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence is in the Louvre. It is believed that after her mother's early death Eliza and her sister were raised by their childless great-uncle and aunt, Mr & Mrs George Payne

His London residence was in Albemarle Street. He also maintained a country residence at Lee Place, Kent, the property of the Boone family. About 1770 he employed the East India Company architect Richard Jupp to build him a new house on an old site on land which he had purchased from the Lethieullier family. The new house, where he died on 29 September 1784, was later known as Lee Manor. It is now used as a public library and its gardens have become a public park: Manor House Gardens.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MAJOR ANDREW DURNFORD   FOR HIS BERMUDA PROPERTY

Dated: September 1st, 1798

In the name of God, Amen. I Andrew Durnford Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Corp. of Royal Engineers having duly made and published my last will and testament respecting my property in Great Britain bearing equal date herewith, and being of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding do for the purpose of settling and disposing of what property I have within the Bermuda Islands, make this my last will and testament of and concerning the same in manner and form following, that is to say, I will and desire that within twelve months after my decease a just and true appraisement and valuation be all my real Estates within the Islands of Bermuda, and that two exact copies of such appraisement and valuation be fairly made , one whereof to be lodged with my Executrix hereafter named, and the other to be recorded in the Secretary's Office for these Islands; 

and I do hereby give and bequeath unto my dear friend Elizabeth Lucas late of Great Britain, but now a resident in the Town of Saint George and known that name only, whatever name she may hereafter be known or choose to assume, to her, her Executors, Administrators and Assigns all the Moneys, Plates, Linens, Chairs, Household furniture, Implements of Husbandry, Cattle, Goods, Chattels and Effects whatever, and all the personal estate of every kind and description which may belong to or be possessed by me at the time of my death and which shall be within the Bermuda Islands.

I do give and devise to my said Dear Friend Elizabeth Lucas all my real Estate in the aforesaid Islands, that is to say, all my lot or lots of ground situate at a place called or known by the name of Style Hill in the Town of St. George together with the dwelling houses, buildings, outhouses, wharfs, warehouses, storehouses and the appurtenances, also all the lands which I have purchased of John Grove Palmer Esquire at Mullet Bay, in the Parish aforesaid.

 Also all the lands and grants of lands granted to me by his Excellency, Governor Hamilton, which grants were dated on or the twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and ninety-four.

Also all my estate and interest in the Glebe lands sold by authority of an Act of the Legislature of these Islands, lying and being in the Parish of St. George aforesaid, also a certain small island called or known by the name of Harney Island which I purchased of John Grove Palmer Esquire and is situated in the Harbour of Saint George at the entrance of old Town Cut together with the rents, I give and present singular the said provisions to have and to hold the said devised Estates, lands and tenements here delivered and possession until the following children of the said Elizabeth Lucas, that is to say, Elizabeth Durnford, Henry William Durnford, John Durnford and James Andrew Durnford or the Survivor Successors of them shall have respectively attained the age of twenty-one years, and if but one survivor until he or she shall attain the said age of twenty-one years, 

if she the said Elizabeth Lucas shall so long live, in Trust nevertheless and in the special confidence and to the intent and purpose that the said devised lands, tenements before mentioned may be kept up and managed in the best possible manner the benefit of the Services hereinafter mentioned; and during the continuance of the said trust,

 I do devise to my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas (in use she shall so long live) all the rents, issues and profits of the Lands, Tenements, Stores, Warehouses, Wharfs, and premises aforesaid to and for her own use to enable her to educate and support them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford during the continuance of the said Trust, and from and after the determination of the said Trust that is to say, on the attainment of the age of twenty-one years respectively and severally by them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford, only the youngest of them who shall live to attain such age,

I do them give and devise the said lands, Tenements aforesaid to the said John Durnford, his heirs and assigns forever, subject to the provisions and conditions hereafter aforesaid and subject to the payment of one annual sum or yearly rent charge of twenty pounds Current money of these Islands to be paid to my dear friend Elizabeth Lucas for the term of her natural life by quarterly or half yearly payments as she shall appoint and direct, the first payment thereof to be made at the expiration of the first quarter or half year, after the determination of the aforesaid Trust Estates, as my said dear friend shall please to elect. 

And I do paying devise the aforesaid lands, Tenements and premises to the said John Durnford on condition of his paying (within eighteen months after his coming into possession of the same on determination of the aforesaid trust Estate) unto each of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford or their heirs one fourth part of the value of the said devised lands, tenements, premises according to the appraisement and valuation, to be made thereof as is herein before directed.

 Provided nonetheless and on this further condition, that my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas shall have enjoy the free, full and perfect use and occupation of my before mentioned Dwelling House, outhouses, the buildings (excepting the Wharfs and Warehouses) and gardens, at Style Hill aforesaid, for and during the time of her natural life unless it shall please the said John Durnford to sell and dispose of the same. which case I do devise, direct and appoint that the said dwelling house, outhouses, buildings, Wharfs, Warehouses and all other my Estates, lands, tenements and within the Bermuda Islands and herein before devised, shall be and stand charged (in lieu and satisfaction to my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas of the aforesaid annual sums or yearly rent charge of Forty pounds a year and as an equivalent and recompense to her for the loss of the use and occupation of the dwelling house, outhouses, buildings and gardens at Style Hill aforesaid) with the payment of an annual sum or yearly rent charges of one hundred and twenty pounds current money of the Bermuda Islands to be paid unto my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas for and during the time of her natural life, either by quarterly or half yearly payments as she shall appoint and direct.

 The first payment thereof to commence and be made the expiration of the first quarter or half year after the sale of the said dwelling house, outhouses, buildings and gardens at Style Hill, aforesaid as my said dear friend shall please to elect. 

And in default of payment by the said John Durnford of the one fourth part of the value of the said before mentioned and devised Estates, lands, tenements and according to the appraisement and valuation to be taken as aforesaid) unto each of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, Henry William Durnford, and James Andrew Durnford. at the time and as I have all my said estates, lands, tenements and to the aforesaid Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford to be divided between them, share and share alike, each one fourth part in common and not as joint tenants subject to the aforesaid annual sum or yearly rent charge of forty pounds, and subject to the same conditions and provision favour of my dear friend Elizabeth Lucas respecting the aforesaid dwelling house, outhouses, buildings and gardens at Style Hill, and to the payment of the aforesaid annual sum or yearly rent charge of one hundred and twenty pounds in manner and in lieu and satisfaction as aforesaid in case the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall and dispose of the same.

 But if it shall so happen that any of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall die without having issue lawfully begotten or without having duly and legally disposed of his, her or that fourth part or share of the lands, tenements and this my will relating to my Bermuda property in case of default in the payment herein before appointed to be made to them by the aforesaid John Durnford then and in such case I do will and devise that the share or shares of each of them who shall so die shall go to the survivor or survivors of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford to equally divided between them , share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants; 

case the said John Durnford shall chance to die without issue lawfully begotten before the expiration of aforesaid trust estate and before payment of the said fourth part in value of my estates aforesaid (according to the appraisement and valuation aforesaid) shall be due and payable, then I do give and devise all my aforesaid estates, lands, tenements and within the Bermuda Islands (at the expiration of the said trust estate) unto the survivor or survivors of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford their heirs and issues forever share and share alike as tenants in common and not as joint tenants subject herewith to the aforesaid limitations, conditions, provisions and covered and mentioned in favour of my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas and subject to the aforesaid annuities of forty pounds and as payment charged in the aforesaid lands, tenements and in manner aforesaid;

 And in case all of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall die without issue lawfully begotten or without having legally and duly disposed of his, her or their interests and estates in the herein before devised lands, tenements and within the Bermuda Islands then and in such case I do devise the same (subject nevertheless to the use, occupation and amenities aforesaid in favour of my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas) to the two manner Executors named in my will respecting my property in Great Britain, as the Executors thereof in manner as I have herein directed to them all the rest and residue of my property in Great Britain after specific bequest in the said will made; but if it shall chance to happen that my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas die before the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall have attained their respective ages of twenty-one years or before the youngest of them of them who shall live to attain such age, shall have attained the same.

I do then and in such case hereby devise all my lands, tenements and within the Bermuda Islands immediately from and after the decease said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas unto my friends Simon Fraser Esquire, Storekeeper of His Majesty's and Ordnance at Saint George's aforesaid and Robert Tucker of Island Esquire for the residue of the term and time and on the trusts before mentioned and devised respecting the same in the devise thereof to my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas and I do hereby particularly request my two said friends Simon Fraser and Robert Tucker Esquires in case of the death of my said dear friend Elizabeth Lucas) to have take a fatherly care and attention to the education and bringing up the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford and to be particularly attentive to the management and improvement of the lands, Tenements and herein before devised.

And I will and direct that no timber be cut off from any of my estates and lands in these Bermuda Islands before the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall have respectively attained their several ages of twenty-one years, and in case any of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall die before he, she or they shall attain such age then not until the youngest survivor of them the said Elizabeth Durnford, John Durnford, Henry William Durnford and James Andrew Durnford shall attain her or his said age of twenty one years unless as much as may be necessary to pay and discharge the just rents due from the said estates provided the same cannot be in any other way discharged;

 And I do hereby nominate and institute and appoint my dear friend Elizabeth Lucas my executrix in these Islands and of this my will respecting my Bermuda property; In witness whereof I have to this writing contained in this and the two preceding sheets of paper set my hand and seal, to wit, my hand to the bottom of the two preceding sheets my hand and seal to the last sheet and my seal at the top of the first of the said sheets all the said sheets are fixed together and on this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight.

Andrew Durnford L.G.