Charles Pym

Slave-owner on St Kitts, whose estates passed through his daughter Priscilla into the family of her husband Robert Marsham, Baron Romney.

1. Will of Charles Pym of the island of St Christopher [made in 1739] proved 16/04/1741. He manumitted Old Will, head carpenter, and left him two barrels of beef per annum; and he manumitted Bussey, the daughter of Cuba, and left her £300 at 21, to be revoked if St Kitts was taken by a foreign enemy before then or to be reduced if St Kitts was 'plundered', and an annuity of £20 p.a. until she was of age. He left monetary legacies of £500 each to Mrs Jane Burt '(if she shall live with me at the time of my death'), his godson Charles Pym Burt and Frances Pym Douglas, and £300 to his niece Mrs Eliz Fox [?] of Montserrat, and an unknown legacy - the will is blank where the amount should be - to Charles Pym Weatherill. He left his residuary estate to his daughter Priscilla.

1. PROB 11/709/83