Janus: Jardine Matheson Archive

Manuscripts/MS JM/F contains:
F1	Agreements and contracts
F2	Assignments
F3	Average agreements
F4	Bills of sale
F5	Bonds
F6	Certificates of sale
F7	Charter parties
F8	Declarations
F9	Deeds of covenant
F10	Deeds of partnership
F11	Employment contracts
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Jardine Matheson Archive

Title	Assignments
Reference	MS JM/F2
Covering Dates	1831–1899
Extent and Medium	2 bundles + 1 envelope

Content and context

Assignments of property, leases and other rights. Many of the documents relate to property at Victoria, Hong Kong.

Manuscripts/MS JM/F2 contains:

Assignment of factories. An assignment of the lease of six factories in the Danish Hong by D. Manson to Magniac & Co., with the company to receive the rents from the properties to repay the money it advanced to Manson for the procurement and subsequent improvement and repair of the factories, dated Canton, 29 January 1831.
1 item.

1831

Assignment of the 'Lady Hayes'. A deed of assignment of the barque 'Lady Hayes' by James Calder, George James Gordon, John Storm and James Calder Stewart, co-partners in Macintosh & Co., Calcutta, to William Dunlop and W.M. Kennedy, both Lieutenant Colonels in the Bengal Establishment, and W. Adam, Richard Howe Cockerell and Thomas Holroyd, all of Calcutta, 20 February 1833.
1 item.

1833

Assignment of the 'Lady Hayes'. A deed of assignment of the barque 'Lady Hayes' by Richard Howe Cockerell and Thomas Holroyd, both of Calcutta, to William Dunlop, W.M. Kennedy and William Adam, 11 May 1833.
1 item.

1833

Assignment of land near Ly Chee Valley. An assignment from Captain John Pike to Captain James Jeremiah Davis of a piece of land near Ly Chee Valley, Hong Kong, 16 March 1843, with letters and other related papers, including a power of attorney granted by Pike to Davis to take possession of the land, also dated 16 March 1843.
7 items.

1843

Assignment of land at Victoria. An assignment in trust by Farquhar Macqueen to Donald Matheson and William Stewart of a piece of land at Victoria, Hong Kong, 13 February 1844. There is also a copy of a memorial of 1 March 1844 of an assignment of lease by way of mortgage, also made on 13 February, whereby Macqueen assigned the Victoria land to Alexander Matheson as security for a debt.
2 items.

1844

Assignment of Lot No. 45. An assignment by William Caine, Brevet Major in Her Majesty's Twenty-sixth Regiment of Foot and Chief Magistrate of Hong Kong, to Richard Woosnam, assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, both of Victoria, Hong Kong, of the lease of Lot No. 45 at Victoria, dated Victoria, 29 April 1844. There is also a copy of a memorial of the assignment received and registered at the Land Office, Hong Kong, by the Surveyor General on 25 May 1844, and a lease of Lot No. 45 by the Crown to Caine, 28 February 1844, missing the end, and possibly a copy.
3 items.

1844

Assignment of Lot No. 10. An assignment by Alexander Matheson, merchant, to Augustus Howell, both of Victoria, Hong Kong, of the lease of a part of Marine Lot No. 10 at Victoria, dated 25 October 1845.
1 item.

1845

Assignment of rights to a child. A copy of an assignment by G. Lungley to Jozé de Sá of his right and claim to the child 'Asso[u]', daughter of Aken-tanka, dated Macao, 14 September 1854.
1 item.

1854

Assignment of Lot No. 55. A draft of an assignment by Alexander Matheson of London to Richard James Gilman of Gilman & Co. of Canton, merchant, of the lease of Lot No. 55 at Victoria, Hong Kong, dated Hong Kong, 9 February 1856.
1 item.

1856

Assignment of Lot No. 10. An assignment by August Howell, formerly of Victoria, Hong Kong, gentleman, now or lately of Sag Harbour, Long Island, New York, to Charles Woolett Bowra, formerly of Victoria, storekeeper, presently residing in England, and William Addenbrooke Bowra of Victoria, storekeeper, of the lease of a portion of Marine Lot No. 10, dated Victoria, 31 March 1856.
1 item.

1856

Assignment of a judgement against Sandwith Drinker. An assignment by Ng Ayek, comprador, to Douglas Lapraik, watchmaker, both of Victoria, Hong Kong, of a judgement recovered by Ayek in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on 20 August against Sandwith Drinker, late of Victoria, storekeeper, for the sum of 3,481 Mexican dollars and 65 cents, dated Victoria, 3 December 1856.
1 item.

1856

Assignment of Lot No. 82. An assignment by Alexander Robert Johnston, late of Victoria, Hong Kong, now of the Grove, Yoxford, Suffolk, to John Heard of Victoria of the lease of Lot No. 82 in Victoria, 18 August 1857.
1 item; Poor condition, including damage by damp and extensive damage by insects..

1857

Assignment of the debt of W.C. Hunter. An assignment by Thomas Hunt & Co. to John Martin Armstrong, also of Thomas Hunt & Co., of a debt owed to the company by W.C. Hunter of Hong Kong, 22 February 1862.
1 item; Poor condition, torn into two parts, with further tears..

1862

Assignment of Lots 55 and 91. A copy of an assignment by Floriano Antonio Rangel to N. & E. Sapoorjee & Co., both of Victoria, Hong Kong, of parts of his leased land at Victoria (Section B of Inland Lot 55 and Section C of Inland Lot No. 91), dated Hong Kong, 15 April 1862.
1 item.

1862

Assignment of Lot 6. A copy of the assignment by Henry J. Hooper to Albert Farley Heard of Lot 6 in the area assigned to foreign renters at Yokohama, 16 September 1863, with a copy of Hooper's certificate of title for the property, 29 January 1862.
1 item.

1862–1863

Assignment of property at Shanghai. A duplicate of an assignment by Thomas Hunt & Co. to William Keswick, both of Shanghai, of property in the city, 1 June 1864.
1 item.

1864

Assignment of plate and plated goods. An assignment by Frederick Sowley Huffam of Victoria, Hong Kong, Acting Deputy Registrator of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, official assignee of the bankrupt George Francis Maclean, formerly of Hong Kong, trading in partnership there with George Lyall and George Frederick Still, merchants, to Herbert St Leger Magniac, also of Victoria, of Maclean's plate and plated goods, dated Hong Kong, 9 March 1868. There are is also a set of copies of three documents, labelled A, B and C, preceded by a certificate of Frances Innes Hazeland, Notary Public, of 10 March 1868: A. Order of adjudication declaring G.F. Maclean bankrupt, 23 May 1867; B. Order of the Governor of Hong Kong appointing F.S. Huffam official assignee of Maclean's estate, 27 December 1867; and C. The assignment to H. St. L. Magniac.
2 items.

1868

Assignment of Lot 97. A certified copy of a deed of assignment from Lew Kom Tong, Mooi Fook Suey and Tang Chung, traders, to Kwok Sun Tuk, all of Victoria, Hong Kong, of Subsection 3 of Section A of Marine Lot 97, dated Hong Kong, 24 July 1878.
1 item.

1878

Assignment of land at Swatow. An assignment by Bernhard Schaar of Swatow to Jardine, Matheson & Co. of Hong Kong of a parcel of ground adjoining the Customs property at Swatow, 17 June 1882.
1 item.

1882

Assignment of a benefit of agency agreement. A printed assignment by Matheson & Co. and the Rio Tinto Company Ltd of a benefit of agency agreement, 1st Proof, 18 December 1894, including manuscript annotations. The name of the assignee has not been completed.
1 item.

1894

Assignments of interests in a coal contract. An envelope containing two assignments by William Keswick of 20 January 1899. The first document assigns Keswick's interest as a partner of Matheson & Co. in an Admiralty coal contract in China of November 1895 to Sir Robert Jardine, Baronet, and John Matheson Macdonald; the second assigns Keswick's interest as a partner of Jardine, Matheson & Co. in the same contract to James Johnstone Keswick, James Jardine Bell-Irving, Alexander Palmer MacEwer and Edward Fleet Alford. There are also three related letters of 20 January 1899 (2) and 18 February 1899, and a note by the Director of Navy Contracts, 1899. The front of the envelope contains various notes regarding its contents.
1 envelope.

1899