John Francis Crawford

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1800

Biography

Son of Alexander Crawford of Antigua and Devonshire Street (q.v.).

Will of John Francis Crawford of [the island of Antigua but now residing at] Great Portland Street Middlesex proved 20/02/1801. In the will [made 18/01/1793] he said that he held under lease from Clement Tudway Esq. with about four years to run, a piece of land on Antigua known as Evansons. The 'slaves and other live and dead stock on the said land used to cultivate it' were his [Crawford's] sole and absolute property, and he instructed his executors to sell them at the end of the lease, and the proceeds to be distributed according to his legacies: £1200 to his natural son George Crawford 'a mustee'; £300 to William Willock the son of Alexander Willock; £100 to John Simon Farley; and the remainder in the proportions of 1/3rd to his sister Mary Byrne wife of John Byrne for her sole use, and 2/3rd to his brother Charles Crawford. In an undated codicil he left John Simon Farley a further £200 and Miss White of Charlotte Street £30. In a second codicil of 10/04/1799 he reported the death of his sister Mary Byrne and made her son John Francis Byrne his residuary heir as to 1/3rd of his residual estate.
10 April [1800] At his lodgings near Kilburn Wells in his 50th year, John Francis Crawford of Antigua; 10 April [1800] [Death of] John Francis Crawford of Antigua.

Sources

PROB 11/1353/280.
Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 87 (1800) p. 397 European Magazine and London Review Vol. 37 (Jan.-June 1800) p. 335.

Further Information

Absentee?

Transatlantic

Associated Estates (1)

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

1772 [EA] - 1797 [EY] → Lessee (Estate)

Evansons [ Antigua ]

Under the will of Alexander Crawford of 1772, Crawford said he had agreed to purchase of Clement Tudway Esq. a plantation in Antigua called Evansons, which he left to his son and heir John Francis Crawford.. In his own will made in 1793 and proved in 1801, John Francis Crawford said he held Evansons under lease from Clement Tudway but owned the enslaved people on it outright: he instructed at the end of the lease that he enslaved people be sold. Presumably the land known as Evansons returned to Clement Tudway, possibly to be reabsorbed into another of his estates.