John Simpson of Fair Lawn Kent

John Simpson of Fair Lawn Kent, son and heir of John Simpson of Bounty Hall (d. 1785) and Elizabeth Simpson of Portland Place (q.v.), and one of the beneficiaries of the will of Thomas Pepper Thompson (q.v.). It is clear that John Simpson's Jamaica estates had been overwhelmed by debt by the 1820s, with debts to Thomas Pepper Thompson, Adam Cliff and the Hartleys of Whitehaven.

1. Will of John Simpson formerly of Fair Lawn Kent but now residing at Calais France [made in 1843] proved 07/12/1847. He had, he said been entitled under the will of [his sister] Elizabeth Dunn to the sum of £4341 18s 7d, which he instructed be held for the benefit of his four children given as John Simpson, Thomas Thompson Simpson, Eleanor Lawrence the wife of Henery [sic] Bradley and Amelia Louisa Simpson. He left his three estates of Vale Royal, Lancaster and Maria Bueno in Trelawny, Mount Carmel 'a cattle penn' in St Ann and Tilstone in trust to John Kenyon and his [the testator's] son-in-law James Langdon Reynolds Skinner of London, subject to the provisions of an indenture of 30/04/1841 between him [the testator] and Adam Cliff, Thomas and John Hartley and others providing for the payment of amounts owed to them by John Simpson the testator, for the benefit as to 1/4 each of his sons John and Thomas, and 2/4 between his two daughters Eleanor Lawrence Bradley and Amelia Louisa Simpson, and his [the testator's] natural son John Thomas Simpson of Farndon in Cheshire and James Langdon Skinner, identified as the widower of his [the testators'] late natural daughter Hannah. In a codicil also of 1843 he excluded Amelia Louisa from the inheritance her share of Elizabeth Dunn's legacy should she [Amelia] marry or cohabit with 'one Charles Antonio Dezille].

1. PROB 11/2066/463.