Josias Jackson

MP for Southampton 1807-1812, died in St Vincent in 1819. 'The heirs of Josias Jackson' made a claim for the compensation for the enslaved people on Rutland Vale in St Vincent, which was paid into the Chancery suit of Baillie v Jackson. The estate was mortgaged to James Evan Baillie and his partners.

1. Three children of Josias Jackson Esq. and Jane Jackson (Eliza, Frederick Barnwall [sic] and Henry Augustus) were baptised at St Marylebone and St Pancras between 1793 and 1801, and a fourth, Barnewall, was baptised at Southampton 29/01/1803, again with the mother's name as Jane.

2. Josias Jackson owned 'St Vincent's Rocks', in Clifton 'and owned a similarly named property in...St Vincent'.

3. Josias Jackson died on his estate in St Vincent in 1819, 'many years one of his Majesty's Council' 'in his 57th year.' He is given as of Bellevue House, Southampton in the History of Parliament, which gives his wife as 'Jenetta, da. of (?Edward) Barnewell (?of Demerara).'

4. The will of Josias Jackson of St Vincent was proved 06/10/1820. In the will he was identified as Josias Jackson of St Vincent and of the Rocks [Uckfield] in the county of Sussex, and provided an annuity for his wife Jennetta of £1000 in addition to the [unspecified] amounts under their marriage settlement, and annuity of £500 p.a. to his son also Josias and annuity of £100 p.a. to each of his daughters, with his real estate passing to Josias. By the time his son Josias Jackson the younger came to make his will in 1842, there were arrears according to Josias Jackson the younger of £20,000 on the annuity of £900 p.a. [sic] secured on Rutland Vale.

5. Josias Jackson of Berners Street but now of Hanover Square was the recipient 04/04/1797 of £15,000 of the Exchequer Loans made to planters and merchants of Grenada and St Vincent.

6. Frederic Barnewall Jackson Esquire, late Lieutenant of His Majesty's Navy, died at Trinidad in 1827 aged 27 years; Henry Barnewall Jackson, gentleman, became an Ensign by purchase in the 46th Regiment of Foot in 1842.

T71/892 St Vincent no. 644.

1. Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]; Ancestry.com, England and Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906

2. Madge Dresser, Slavery obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an English provincial port (2001), p. 109.

3. Gentleman's Magazine July-December 1819 Vol. 89 part 2 p. 471; History of Parliament online 1790-1820, R. G. Thorne, 'Jackson, Josias (1765-1819) of Bellevue House, Southampton.'

4. The will of Josias Jackson of the island of St Vincent proved 06/10/1820, PROB 11/1635/62; will of Josias Jackson of Guingamp France proved 02/02/1848, PROB 11/2069/264.

5. Museum of London in Docklands, Exchequer Bills for Relief of Persons Trading with Grenada and St Vincent Box 684 [99], Certificate no. 85.

6. Oxford University and City Herald 02/06/1827; West Kent Guardian 30/07/1842.

We are grateful to Peter Selley for his assistance with this entry.