John Chambers

Duncan Robertson and Edmund Francis Green claimed compensation as executors of John Chambers who was a judgment creditor in 3 different claims. Almost certainly the John Chambers of Saint Elizabeth County of Cornwall, Island of Jamaica, whose will [made in November 1831] was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 27/09/1833 and among whose executors were Duncan Robertson and Edmund Francis Green. Under the will, John Chambers left £3000 and the enslaved people Edmund John alias John Mahon and Jenny and her four children to his housekeeper Jane Garwang [sp?], a free woman of colour, as well as instructing that a house to the value of £500-700 be bought for her and her grandchildren. He left £2000 currency each to two of these grandchildren, the daughters of his deceased son John Thomas Chambers. He left £1000 sterling each to two of his cousins in England, the daughters of his uncle Thomas Chambers. His residuary heirs were another set of grandchildren, the children of his deceased daughter Eliza Ann Mahon wife of James Mahon of Galway.

PROB 11/1821/142.