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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The Dasent family is believed to have been originally of French extraction, the name having been traced to an ancient Norman source. It has owned property in the West Indies since the Restoration, and is repre sented in the island of St. Vincent at the present day. Some of its members were amongst the earliest colonists in St. Christopher''s at a time when that island and Martinique were held jointly by the French and the English; and the highest judicial and administrative offices in St. Christopher''s, in Nevis, in Antigua, and, more recently, in St. Vincent itself were filled by Sir George Dasent''s ancestors.