John Pogson of Woodside House

Absentee slave-owner on St Kitts.

1. Will of John Pogson of Woodside House Essex proved 07/10/1784. The will begins by his recitation of his marriage settlement of 1754 by which he retained the right to charge the estates called Pogsons in St Mary Cayon and St John Capisterre on St Kitts with amounts up to £10,000: of this, he had charged £4000 on the marriage of his sister Elizabeth Pogson with Rev. Thomas Preston; under his will he then charged the estates with £3000 for his illegitimate children with Jane Wood. Subject to these charges, he left the estates in entail to his eldest son John Pogson (q.v., under John Pogson of Rougham) then to his youngest son Bedingfield Pogson (q.v., under Bedingfield Pogson of Edwardstone, Suffolk).

2. John Pogson had married Elizabeth Mary Milward, herself an owner of property in St Kitts with an estate in her own name shown on the 1753 Samuel Baker map, 18/05/1754 at St George Hanover, by special license.

1. PROB 11/11222/216.

2. Ancestry.com Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 for John Pogson St George, Hanover Square 1754-1759 [database online].