Rev. John Venn

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1764

Biography

Will of Rev. John Venn Rector of St Catherine Jamaica proved 19/07/1764. He instructed his property - including 'negroes' - to be sold at auction, recording his sense that sale at appraised value was unfair. He left £3000 currency to his wife Elizabeth and £6700 to his three daughters already in England (£2600 to his eldest daughter Mary; £2100 to Elizabeth; and £2000 to Sarah) and £2800 currency to his fourth daughter Susanna Bonella Venn. He held, he said, a mortgage over Julines Beckford's Eaton estate for £3000 sterling [given in codicil as £4200], which by his codicil he assigned to his wife.

Sources

PROB 11/900/309.

Further Information

Spouse

Elizabeth

Children

4 das.

Associated Estates (2)

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

1764 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Mortgage Holder

Eaton [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

In his will made in 1763 and a codicil of 1764, Rev. John Venn said he held a mortgage [given as £3000 and then £4200] on the Eaton estate of Julines Beckford.

1760 [EA] - 1764 [LA] → Attorney

Haughton Tower Estate [ Jamaica | Hanover ]

Although transcribed variously as Bern and Vern as well as Venn, this is recognisably Dr John Venn.