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Rev. John Venn

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1764

Biography

Will of Rev. John Venn Rector of St Catherine Jamaica proved 19/07/1764. He instructed his property - including 'negroes' - to be sold at auction, recording his sense that sale at appraised value was unfair. He left 拢3000 currency to his wife Elizabeth and 拢6700 to his three daughters already in England (拢2600 to his eldest daughter Mary; 拢2100 to Elizabeth; and 拢2000 to Sarah) and 拢2800 currency to his fourth daughter Susanna Bonella Venn. He held, he said, a mortgage over Julines Beckford's Eaton estate for 拢3000 sterling [given in codicil as 拢4200], which by his codicil he assigned to his wife.

Sources

PROB 11/900/309.

Further Information

Spouse

Elizabeth

Children

4 das.

Associated Estates (2)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1764 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Eaton [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

In his will made in 1763 and a codicil of 1764, Rev. John Venn said he held a mortgage [given as 拢3000 and then 拢4200] on the Eaton estate of Julines Beckford.

1760 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Attorney

Haughton Tower Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Although transcribed variously as Bern and Vern as well as Venn, this is recognisably Dr John Venn.