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| === Proved in Antigua ===
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| === Proved in Delaware ===
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| Richard Oliver of Antigua received a bequest in the will of Baldwin Johnson, of Appo. Hundred, New Castle county, Delaware, dated 1720, and proved 1721 in Delaware, see:
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| *The Historical Research Committee of the Colonial Dames of Delaware. ''A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County 1682-1800''. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1911. Digital version at [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/232801-a-calendar-of-delaware-wills-new-castle-county-1682-1800?offset=1 FamilySearch Digital Library]. [See; pp. 23-24.]
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| === Proved in Edinburgh ===
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| === Proved in London ===
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| At least 275 residents of [[Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua]] sent their wills to [[London, England|London]] to be proved in the [[Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury|Prerogative Court of Canterbury]] (PCC).<ref>Place search for 'Antigua,' in Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills (1384-1858), Documents Online, The National Archives, 10 December 2010.</ref>
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| Oliver compiled a list:
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| *'Antigua. List of Wills relating to this Island proved in the P.C.C. down to 1812,' ''Caribbeana,'' Vol. 3 (1914):180-184. Digitised by [http://www.dloc.com/UF00075409/00003/200j dLOC] - free.
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| Oliver also abstracted some wills and administrations proved in the PCC in Volume 3 of:
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| *Oliver, Vere Langford. ''The History of the Island of Antigua: One of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the First Settlement in 1635 to the Present Time''. 3 vols. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1894-1899. {{FSC|99549|item}}; digital version at [https://www.archive.org/details/historyofislando03oliv Internet Archive] [See pp. 401-405, 458-460.]
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