Lagos Documents.

Lagos Documents. Lagos Documents. Two vellum documents relating to land in Lagos, 1880 and 1887, both with a Sarah Forbes Bonetta connection, comprising: 1.Crown grant of land at Broad Street, Island of Lagos, to Nelly Oyikan, under the Public Seal of the Gold Coast Colony, Christiansborg, 14 February 1880, vellum, printed form completed in manuscript, coloured plan on verso signed by the Assistant Colonial Surveyor; 2. Conveyance of the Oil Mills property and Gbologun House, Lagos - Halliday, Dibb and Mather to Richard Sykes of Manchester, 9 February 1887, vellum, 12 pp., sewn, four signatures under four red wax seals, two pen-and-wash plans, registered at Lagos 4 April 1887. Both documents were exhibits in the Privy Council appeal Callender, Sykes & Co. v. Colonial Secretary of Lagos and Davies [1891] A.C. 460. The 1887 conveyance completed the sale, from a Manchester bankruptcy, of the two Lagos properties that Sarah Forbes Bonetta (Queen Victoria's West African goddaughter) claimed as her own by name in the last letter she wrote before her death. The 1880 Crown grant, under the Public Seal of the Gold Coast Colony, is made to a named Lagos woman, adding to a freehold she already held. Both documents are important exhibits in the legal context of colonial property, particularly in terms of the rights of creditors. 14 February 1880, vellum, printed form completed in manuscript, coloured plan on verso signed by the Assistant Colonial Surveyor;, 9 February 1887, vellum, 12 pp., sewn, four signatures under four red wax seals, two pen-and-wash plans, registered at Lagos 4 April 1887

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