Sir John Molesworth 4th Bart.

Profile & Legacies Summary

1705 - 1766

Biography

MP for Newport 1734-1741 and Cornwall 1744-1761. Shown with his son William (who predeceased him) as the owner of estates called Spring, Pitney and Cow Park 1740-1743. Sir John Molesworth's great-uncle Hender Molesworth had been a slave-owner, slave-factor and Governor of Jamaica.

Sir John and William Molesworth were listed in the Jamaican Quit Rent books for 1754 as the owners of 3269 acres of land in St Dorothy.

Sources

http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/molesworth-sir-john-1705-66 [accessed 04/11/2019].

A List of landholders in the Island of Jamaica together with the number of acres each person possessed taken from the quit rent books in the year 1754', TNA CO 142/31 transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples2/1754lead.htm.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Children

William

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1740 [EA] - 1754 [LA] → Joint owner

Spring Garden, Pitney and Cow Park [ Jamaica ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Pencarrow [Built]

Details

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Pencarrow, country house in Cornwall extended and remodelled by Sir John Molesworth 4th bart. and his son of the same name the 5th bart. in the 1760s, to designs by Robert Allanson. The house is...

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