John Dodson

Mortgagee of Lancaster, awarded compensation in that capacity in British Guiana, and also one of the trustees and executors of Thomas Gudgeon (q.v.) for Plantation Litchfield in Berbice.

1. Will of John Dodson Esq. proved 27/10/1842. His death was registered at Lancaster Q3 1842. He left his estate of Tongue [or Tonge] Moor in the township of Littledale and £8000 to his son John; he left £7000 each to two other sons, Thomas Gudgeon Dodson (also godson and legatee of Thomas Gudgeon) and Charles Potter Dodson in addition to the money they had already received. He left sums of £13,000, £13,000 and £15,000 on trust to his three sons and his sons-in-law John Edmondson and Joseph North Green Armytage, the first two sums to support the marriage settlements of John Dodson's daughters Margaret and Harriet with John Edmondson and Joseph North Green Armytage respectively, and the third to be held for the benefit of his daughter Mary Ann.

2. Probably the John Dodson of Lancaster, merchant, eldest son and heir of John Dodson late of Ulverston, deceased, shown 13/02/1798 as trustee of a lease and release of Spark Bridge Ironworks in Cumbria.

3. Robert Dodson of Robert Dodson and Jacob Ridley, who were individually bankrupt in 1811, was probably John Dodson's brother. The Robert Dodson who had been a slave-captain and slave-trader out of Lancaster 1757-1771 was probably their uncle.

4. Marriage of Harriet Dodson spinster St Leonard Gate Lancaster with Joseph North Green Armytage clerk of Castle Park, father was John Dodson, Esq. 06/12/1837.

T71/885 British Guiana claims no. 196, no. 219 (Plantation Hampshire), and no. 289. T71/1610 letters from JD Lancaster dated 18/11/1835 and 9/1/1836: setting out claims as mortgagee on British Guiana 196, 262 [?], 219 and 289.

1. PROB 11/1969/138; FreeUKGen, England and Wales Free BMD Database, Deaths, 1837-1983 [database online].

2. Release of Sparkbridge Ironworks Z/70 http://www.archiveweb.cumbria.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=Z%2f70&pos=71 [accessed 23/02/2014].

3. London Gazette, Issue 17540, 30/11/1819, p. 2157; www.slavevoyages.org.

4. Lancashire Online Parish Clerk Project http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Lancaster/stmary/marriages_1837-1841.html accessed 15/11/2010.