John Toke

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1819

Biography

John Toke of Todington [sic] was among a group of individuals purchasing, for a total of £15,000, annuities from John Mills secured on the latter's estates and enslaved people on Nevis in 1774, when for £500 he purchased an annuity of £50 p.a., for the lives of Sarah Rutton spinster of Ashford (aged 59) and Matthias Rutton of the same place aged 24. In the will of Sarah Rutton (q.v.) she said that John Toke held half the annuity in trust for her, and she left it to her nephew Matthias.

The will of John Toke [of Godinton now of the City] of Canterbury was proved 29/07/1819.

Sources

Common Records 1775-1776, British Library, EAP794/1/1/15, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP794-1-1-15 pp. 65-94.

PROB 11/1618/461.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

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

1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Trustee

The Prospect [ Nevis ]

John Toke appeared among the purchasers of annuities from John Mills in 1774, in his case for the lives of Sarah Rutton aged 59 spinster of Ashford and Matthias Rutton aged 24. The will of Sarah Rutton said that Toke held half the annuity in trust for her, while the will of her brother Isaac Rutton laid claim to the other half with Toke as trustee.