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Isaac Pickering, of Fox Lease, Lyndhurst
Facts and Events
Notes
- Isaac Pickering and his son John were instrumental in shipping enslaved people from Tortola to Trinidad in the 1820s.
- recorded in the UCL “Legacies of British Slave-ownership” database as “Isaac Pickering of Fox Lease Lyndhurst”, a “slave owner and antecedent of claimant or beneficiary”, owning slaves in Trinidad and the Virgin Islands
- when slave trade became illegal, he returned to England, settling in Bathwick
References
- ↑ Birth, Marriages, and Deaths from the Minutes and Records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Tortola, in Jenkins, Charles F. (Charles Francis). Tortola : a Quaker experiment of long ago in the tropics. (London: Friends Bookshop, 1923)
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John Pickering, married, second, "Seventeenth day of Eighth Month, called October, 1748," Rebecca Zeagers, Junr., daughter of Absalom and Rebecca Zeagers, of the Island of Tortola.
Children :
Dorcas, b. Fifth Month 28th, 1749, d. Sixth Month 14th, 1751, and "buried beside her brother, Zacharias, on the right hand."
Rebecca, b. Twelfth Month 15th, 1753.
Isaac, b. Eleventh Month 27th, 1755.
Josiah, b. 1759.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Isaac Pickering of Fox Lease, Lyndhurst, in Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery.
... The will of Isaac Pickering of (Fox Lease) Lyndhurst Hampshire, made 14/11/1826 and proved 01/07/1829 ...
In the will he left his household effects to his wife Katherine, his two shares in the Kennett and Avon canal to his daughter Ellen, and his property in England and Tortola and elsewhere in the West Indies (except the part considered personalty in Trinidad) in trust to his wife, the Rev. Samuel Heathcote and William Wilson of Fenchurch Street. He specifies as his property in Trinidad the Palmiste estate in South Naparima and the Felicity Hall estate in 'Couva Savonetta', and a third estate whose name is omitted in the quarter of Diego Martin, which is almost certainly Cascade, 'and all my slaves, being about four hundred.'
He left his 1/5th of his property to his wife, then one-third of the remainder to his eldest son John Ferdinando Isaac Pickering, and the other two thirds equally between his children John Ferdinando Isaac; Isaac Berwick; Henry; Emma, Ann and Ellen. He commented that he lived at a great distance from his eldest son and therefore they were ignorant of the 'existing situation' of each other.
In a codicil of 06/11/1828, he expressed anxiety about the legal transmission of property in Trinidad and provided for an annuity of £500 p.a. to his wife and £600 p.a. to his five younger children, instead of the portions he had left in his original will (his understanding was that Spanish law would allocate 1/5th to his wife, 2/5ths to his elder son and the other 2/5ths to his other children). He had mortgaged the estates to Messrs Philip & George Protheroe of Bristol, who received all consignments and proceeds therefrom in exchange for an annuity of £1800 to his family. It had, he said, always been his intention to provided £4000 capital for each of his younger children. He recognised that a hasty sale of the estates would not realise enough capital to pay this £20,000 out without leaving his eldest son 'destitute' and accordingly he urged the retention of his estates, assuming the willingness of Protheroes to continue the £1800 p.a. annuity...
- ↑ 223135591 , in Find A Grave
no photo or sources, last accessed Oct 2022.
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