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My goodness that was quick - very many thanks!

Marchant Tubb, born in Bath (bapt. 06 Aug 1732 in Bath Abbey) was a surgeon with property in Jamaica. He married Ann (probably Powell) the widow of Stephen Morant of Jamaica, probably in Jamaica; the marriage was childless and he left everything tied up in a prenuptual agreement to his stepdaughter Mary Powell Morant who married Joseph Royall in London in 1782 and separated from him soon after returning to live with her stepfather in Bedford Square. She died a childless widow in 1816 leaving her Jamaican property Wheelersfield in the parish of St Thomas in the East to her close friend Frances Lee.

The Tubbs were witnesses at the wedding of his close friend Robert Cooper Lee and Priscilla Kelly (parents of Frances) at St George's Hanover Square in 1771.

Marchant's Will of 19 August 1789 left an annuity of £25 a year to his brother John Tubb, an annuity of £25 a year to his sister Elizabeth Wallace and a £300 annuity to his nieces Ann and Susanna Wignall, daughters of his eldest sister Anne. He also left £100 to Robert Cooper Lee, £50 each to John Whiteheand and George Whitehead and £100 at the age of sixteen to his godson Scudamore Cooper Lee to buy books. Everything else was left to his step daughter Mary Powell Royall in a trust to be managed by the executors who were Robert Cooper Lee, John Whitehead and George Whitehead. The witnesses were Stephen and Ann Rigaud. The Will was proved on 1st January 1792.

Hope this helps.

Should perhaps add that the Mormon Family search site are currently indexing Jamaican records and so fairly soon those that exist should be online.

Further research into the Will of Dr Edmund Escourt Gale reveals the following:
"Whereas I am engaged in the wine and spirit trade and the same is now carried on by me at Speenham Land in the County of Berks and whereas it had always been my intention to assign the said Trade and Business to my oldest son Edmund Estcourt Wilkins Gale when he should attain the age of twenty five years I do hereby direct and it is my Will and desire...that my said Trade of a Wine and Spirit Merchant shall be carried on by my Trustees...."

So it appears that the wine & spirit business at Speen had come to Dr EE Gale, perhaps through a marriage settlement with his wife ? and that is how it was handed on the Edmund Estcourt Wilkins Gale who would have reached 25 a year or so after his father's death in 1819.

The Will also mentions investments funding the support of Sarah Gooden his sister-in-law, which he was managing under the terms of his mother-in-law's Will.

Further to yesterday's posting I think you will find a lot of useful information in the Will of William Gooden, Cornchandler of Speen died 1807 - PCC prob 11/1467. I haven't gone through in detail yet, but it appears he divided his estate in six equal parts between sisters Mary Bailey, widow; Ann Angel separated from her husband Thomas and for her use alone and the estates of his four late brothers Henry, Benjamin, James and Richard.
There is also the Will of widowed Sarah Gooden who died two years later (PCC prob 11/1496) which appointed her son in law Edmund Estcourt Gale as her executor. She mentions Trade Goods but no what trade she or her late husband had followed. Her son William was then still living as was her spinster daughter Sarah.
Hope this helps.
Alice Elizabeth Gooden was my grandmother's great grandmother so you have prompted me into further research which I had been meaning to do for some time - for which much thanks

A further thought - I believe that Christchurch settlers (mostly English) were required to have a letter of recommendation from their vicar - I wonder who wrote one for Ann Hodge.