Mary his wife of the one part, and our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria of the other part. Witneseth that the said James Kelly for and in consideration of the sum of thirty pounds of [am] money of the said Island by our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria to him in hand well and truly paid at or before the ensealing and delivering of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged. . . making and including one acre of land agreeably to the plan of the said premises here to surveyed.

- Land Conveyance; Liber 61, Folio 521-524

Before it was occupied, the marine hospital, erected by the government during the summer of 1849, burned to the ground on Thursday night, September 6, of that same year. Authorities believed it to be the act of an arsonist.

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