Thomas Cussans II of Mayfair

Thomas Cussans, son of Thomas of the isle of Jamaica, matriculated 29/05/1755 aged 16. John, almost certainly his brother, also son of Thomas of Jamaica, matriculated 05/01/1759 aged 17.

Thomas Cussans contributed £30 to the University of Pennsylvania following Dr John Morgan's fundraising tour of the West Indies in 1772-1773.

Will of Thomas Cussans of [Stanhope Street] Mayfair proved 05/08/1796. In the will he left his wife Catherine an annuity of £1500 p.a., replacing the annuity of £1000 p.a. in their marriage settlement, in each case secured on the Winchester estate and Hopewell Pen, and the enslaved people upon them: after 18 months from his death, £400 p.a of this £1500 p.a was to be charged on his leasehold house in Stanhope Street. He left his nephew George Cussans Richards of Lincolns inn. an annuity of £400 p.a., his nephew John (the son of his deceased brother John) an annuity of £70 p.a. and his godson Thomas Dakers (son of Sophia King now residing in France) an annuity of £50 p.a., all charged on Winchester and Hopewell. He was, he said entitled to charge one moiety of Amity Hall with £5000, which he did in trust for his nieces Jemima Cussans and Euphine Scott. He left Winchester and Hopewell Hall [sic] subject to these annuities and other monetary legacies to his niece Catherine Lambert. In a codicil of 1796 he said that he and his nephew Thomas Cussans [III] (q.v.), identified in the main body of the will as the eldest son of his brother John, had entered into an agreement to bar the entail on Amity Hall.

Ancestry.com, Oxford University Alumni, 1500-1886 [database online]

William Smith, Joseph Hopkinson, and Plunket Fleeson Glentworth, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Minute Books, Volume 2, 1768-1779 p. 75, entry for 13/12/1773. Note amounts are in Jamaican currency.

PROB 11/1278/89.