SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

Research for Digital Newspaper from National Library.

the judges , admitted that the chop signatures were truly Sultan Allies, asked that the title deeds of

the land be produced, which of course could not be done, as none existed.

Somehow I managed to find one as part of my collection. It is interesting to note what if it was

produced would it change the course of history for the family of the 2nd Sultan?

Sultan Ali Iskander Shah

1835 - 1855 H.H. Paduka Sri Sultan Muhammad Ali Iskandar Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Husain Muazzam Shah,

Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Johor and all its dependencies. b. at Singapore, 1824, fifth son of H.H. Paduka

Sri Sultan Husain Muazzam Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Shah Alam, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar

of Johor, Pahang and all its dependencies, by his fourth wife, H.H. Tengku Prabhu binti Tengu Mahmud [Tengku

Perbu], educ. privately. Succeeded on the death of his father, 2nd September 1835. Recognised as successor to

his father and allowed to succeed to his porperties by the British Government in

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

Singapore, 16th September 1840. He agreed to cede full sovereignty over Johor to Temenggong Ibrahim in return

for a pension from the British Government, at the same time retaining Kesang/Muar on the mainland as a

personal fiefdom, 10th March 1855. Having failed to establish his control over Kesang, he sold the rights to

revenue collection several times over to different interests. Thereby losing effective control of the last vestige

of his territorial possessions and reducing that province to a lawless land. Disgruntled at his treatment by the

British authorities, plagued by creditors and pursued by the various competing agents he appointed in Kesang,

he relocated from Singapore and settled in Malacca. m. (first) at Singapore, H.H. Tengku Ngah Anjang [Neh],

Tengku Perempuan (d. from a broken heart at Mecca, Arabia, ca 15th July 1892, bur. there), a cousin and daughter

of Raja Guyah, a petty prince from Siak. m. (second) (div.) Y.M. Daeng Siti (d. before 1877), daughter of a Bugis

nobleman. m. (third) at Malacca, Cik Serimbuk binti Mumin [Inche Sarimbah/Semboh] (d. after 1878), daughter

of Daeng Muhammad Amin, a penghulu from Umbai, Malacca. He d. at Umbai, Malacca, 20th June 1877 (bur.

there at Masjid Umbai), having had issue, four sons and five daughters

THE SEAL OF SULTAN ALI ISKANDER SHAH

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

And whereas the said Sultan Ali occupied the said land

and granted leases of portions thereof to divesrse persons :

This rare document now for Sale is one of such lease.

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

In the Indenture , there is another sale to Tuan Hadjee Patima. It must be talking about Princess

Haijah Fatima .

Syed Abdul Rahman Alsagoff (Arabic: Saiyid Abd ar-Raman al-saqqf)

founder of an Arab Singaporean merchant family of Hadhrami Arabic origin came to Singapore with

his son Ahmed and established his firm Alsagoff and Company in 1848. His son Syed Ahmed married

Princess Raja Siti, the daughter of Princess Hajjah Fatimah. Hajjah Fatimah was a Malaccan who was

married to the Sultan of Gowa Karaeng Chanda Pulih of Bugis royalty but who had maintained a

trading post at Singapore. Hajjah Fatimah built the historical Masjid Hajjah Fatimah on Beach Road in

Kampong Glam. The Alsagoff family also started the Arabic School in Jalan Sultan in 1912.

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

The Straits Times, 9 July 1904, Page 5 SULTAN ALI'S LAND AT KAMPONG GLAM.

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY

SALE OF A 1845 RARE DOCUMENT OF SINGAPORES COLONIAL HISTORY