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- George's first name is not recorded in the OPR, but Bulloch records that George was born posthumously two months after his father's death in 1748 which matches with the baptismal record. George went to Jamaica and served as a representative in the Assembly for Port Royal and later as Provost Marshal General of Jamaica; 1785-1788 in which office he was succeeded by his brother, Lewis. According to Bulloch, after George's father's death, the estate of Castlehill fell to creditors and was partially saved by George's uncle Abbé Alexander Cuthbert-alias-Colbert and secondly by the purchase of this George Cuthbert who then became proprietor of the family estate. However, George had barely rescued the estate from creditors when he died 17 JUN 1789 without a will. Castle Hill then passed to his brother Lewis. Not quite.
It would appear, that Bulloch glosses over much in the complicated transition of the estate through this period. What appears to be more precisely the case that when George Cuthbert, 12th of Castlehill died in 1748 leaving the estate financially encumbered, then his next lawful heir, James Cuthbert (only 16 at the time and not yet a doctor) was too young to handle the debts and the estate was passed laterally, by purchase, to George's brother, the Abbé Alexander Colbert, 13th of Castlehill, who must have been somewhat, if not wholly, successful in his efforts to rescue the estate from creditors as he held the estate in his own right for another 30 years until his own death in 1782. Upon the death of the Abbé Colbert the next lawful heir was this George's brother, Dr. James Cuthbert, however he may have been elderly or deceased and unable to assume the burden of the estate as it passed over James to his eldest son, Joseph Cuthbert in Savannah Georgia. It would appear that it required about two years of legal efforts for Joseph to claim his inheritance. The estate then passed quickly to this George Cuthbert which seems to imply that Joseph could not handle the debts of the estate and this George purchased Castlehill from his nephew Joseph.
On 20 Jan 1785, George appointed his elder brother, Lewis Cuthbert, as his attorney regarding his estate in Inverness. On 31 Dec 1788, George appointed Robert Jamieson, Writer to the Signet, Edinburgh, Scotland, as his factor. However, no sooner had George managed to settle the estate upon himself then he promptly died on 17 JUN 1789 and Castlehill passed to George's older brother, Lewis. It would appear that Lewis, too, felt the burden of the estate's debts as there is a deed dated May 1795, showing the lands of Castlehill being conveyed to Messrs. Abram Roberts and Company in London, England. Thus Castlehill passed forever out of the hands of the Cuthbert family.
Edinburgh Register of Deeds, RD4.239.451; In: David Dobson, 1986, Directory of Scottish Settlers In North America, 1625-1825, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, Vol. VI, p. 33; ISBN: 0-8063-1157-6. [Notes: This appointment was subscribed in St. Jago de la Vega, Middlesex County, Jamaica with witnesses Duncan FRASER, gentleman, Jamaica, and Joseph Drew MUNRO, writer. This volume contains abstracts of all documents pertaining to North America recorded in the Edinburgh Register of Deeds.]
erd2 Edinburgh Register of Deeds, RD3.245.210; In: David Dobson, 1986, Directory of Scottish Settlers In North America, 1625-1825, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, Vol. VI, p. 34; ISBN: 0-8063-1157-6. [Note: This deed was written by James MURRAY, St. Jago de la Vega, Middlesex County, Jamaica, and subscribed there with witnesses Thomas BROWN, clerk, and William BAILLIE, planter in Middlesex County.]
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Abt 1748 - 1789 (~ 41 years)
