Nicholas Trought of St James

Land surveyor in St James, Jamaica, who owned two coffee plantations - Catadupa and Mocho. Nicholas Trought married Anna Maria Dunn in Durham City in 1789. In his will of 1793 he left his plantations to his executors John Hilton and David Bernard in Jamaica and John Graham Clarke of Newcastle and John Dodson in Durham for the maintenance of his children. He also left land and money to his 'reputed' daughter Grace Trought. In a codicil of 1794, by which time he was at Liverpool, he recognised that he and his wife would have no more children than their single daughter, Anne. He died and was buried at Cheltenham in 1794, his daughter Anne and mother also dying there within weeks of his death

North East Slavery & Abolition Group ENewsletter 5, February 2009, p.2, available at http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/userfiles/NESAG-Newsletter-5.pdf [accessed 08/01/2013]; will of Nicholas Trought land surveyor of St James proved 10/09/1800, PROB 11/1348/21; Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 64 pt 2 December 1794 p. 1154.

We are grateful for the help of Sean Creighton with this entry.