John McCammon Trew

Anglican clergyman in Jamaica. Rector of St. Thomas in the East; active in the Mico Charity schools in the 1830s, later Archdeacon of the Bahamas, dying at Cheltenham in 1869.

In 1826 he stated to the Return of public functionaries owning enslaved people that 'I am the proprietor of one female slave, named Frances Sill, being a gift to a member of my family; and that I am a trustee and executor under the will of my late father-in-law, who was the proprietor of a coffee plantation, in the parish of Manchester, named May-day Hill, whereon there are at present, to the best of my belief, one hundred and twenty slaves, engaged in its cultivation, and in my possession.'

His Irish will record shows him dying 19/01/1869 in England: Ancestry.com, Web: Ireland, Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920 [database on-line], Original data: Calendar of Wills and Administrations 1858-1920. The National Archives of Ireland. http://www.willcalendars.nationalarchives.ie/search/cwa/home.jsp: 13 January 2016.

Parliamentary paper: Slaves in the colonies, PP1826-27 (111) (146), p. 26.