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Returned slave-owner of Jamaica, dying in Islington in 1776.

1. Jonathan Hutton of Britain, Esquire. Estate probated in Jamaica in 1779. Slave-ownership at probate: 62 of whom 32 were listed as male and 30 as female. 0 were listed as boys, girls or children. Total value of estate at probate: £7135.13 Jamaican currency of which £3630 currency was the value of enslaved people. Estate valuation included £0 currency cash, £525.74 currency debts and £0 currency plate.

2. Will of Jonathan Hutton of [St Ann Jamaica but now residing at] Islington [made 10/03/1776] proved 26/04/1776. He left his wife Christian £100, one of his executors and trustees Charles Phillips drysalter of Ludgate Hill £500, and the other George Stubbs £300. He left all his property in Jamaica and in the county of Lincoln in trust to be sold to provide an annuity of £150 p.a. to his wife Christian, with the residue equally to his children at 21 or at marriage; if there were no surviving children, the property was to go to the children of his sister Abigail Hairby [sp?] of Spilsby in Lincolnshire.

1. Trevor Burnard, Database of Jamaican inventories, 1674-1784.

2. PROB 11/1018/295