1752 - 1821
Rev. John Swete ne Tripe of Ashburton, Devon, England, heir of Esther Swete (q.v.) for slave-property in Antigua and instructed as one of her trustees to sell her property in Jamaica that had been willed to her by Mary Hynes, for his benefit as residuary legatee. He has an entry in the ODNB as 'antiquary and topographer' that explains his change of name 'in order to inherit a considerable fortune' but does not indicate the source of the wealth.
Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]; www.devon.gov.uk/revjohnswete.pdf [accessed 12/08/2014]; J. A. Marchand, ‘Swete , John (1752–1821)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26827, accessed 6 June 2017]
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Charlotte Beaumont
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Children
John Beaumont
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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:
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1799 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
He was also residuary heir under the will |
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1799 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
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1800 [EA] - 1815 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
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1803 [EA] - 1803 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
Rev. John Swete was also the main beneficiary under the will of Esther Swete. |
Physical (2) |
Gardens
Oxton House Gardens [Built]
description → Grade II late 18th picturesque landscape at Oxton House, Kenton near Exeter. The Rev. John Swete 'redesigned and landscaped the extensive grounds and added a gatehouse and thatched Gothic hermitage...
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Country house
Oxton House [Built]
description → Grade II small Georgian country house, rebuilt c. 1781 by Rev. John Swete who demolished the existing C16th house on the estate. The house was remodelled c. 1830 by Swete's son John Beaumont...
notes → ...
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Legatee → Testator
Notes →
The Rev. John Tripe changed his name in order to inherit under the will of Esther Swete, a relative of his...
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Oxton House, Exeter, Devon, Devon & Cornwall, England
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1729 - 1809
One of over 300 drawings of landscapes and enslaved people in Jamaica by William Berryman, 1808-1815.
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CITING THIS RECORD:
'Rev. John Swete ne Tripe', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146636135 [accessed 20th June 2019].
