Ann Vanderpool

Will of Ann Vanderpool spinster of St Christopher proved 17/09/1790. Her will, in which she left some two dozen monetary legacies totalling approximately £1800, shows her as part of an elaborate family network in St Kitts and and Britain. She left to Ann Delaney, the daughter of her late brother John Vanderpool, her 'negro woman commonly called Lettice but baptised by the name of Elizabeth.' She manumitted her 'negro woman Elizabeth' and her son Benjamin Johnson 'a mulatto' and left Elizabeth £10. Her residuary legatees were her nephew William Seaton and her nieces, the daughters of her late brother John Vanderpool.

PROB 11/1196/109.