John Thompson of Liverpool

Awarded the compensation for enslaved people on Lancaster in St George's, possibly also on Salt Hill in Port Royal, and certainly the same man whose executors (Eleanor Blewart, Charles Horsfall and W. Mason, each of whom q.v.) were awarded the compensation for three other awards in Port Royal and St George. John Thompson had sold the Eden estate in 1831 to George Hall but Hall had apparently defaulted on the purchase agreement. The John Thompson of Liverpool and/or Great Britain shown as owner of Spring Vale in St John between 1794 and 1804 might also be the same man.

1. Will of John Thompson [late of the Island of Jamaica but at present of Chatham Place, Edge Hill] Liverpool [made in 1824] proved 24/01/1835. In the will he delineated his Jamaican property: the sugar estate called Eden in the parish of St George with the 'negroes' on it, which had been in co-partnership with Daniel Steele but which he then owned outright; a coffee estate called Lancaster in St George; and a building on Port Royal Street in Kingston, which he put in trust for his minor son John Thompson, with remainder to his nephew and niece William and Mary Ann Mason. His executors were his sister Eleanor Blewart, his nephew William Mason of Milnthorpe and Charles Horsfall of Liverpool.

2. 'Saturday sennight, at Chatham Place, Edge Hill, Liverpool, aged 65, [death of] John Thompson, Esq., late of the Island Jamaica, and of Blythe Hall, Lancashire.'

T71/869 St George no. 214 (Lancaster); T71/864 Port Royal no. 77 (Salt Hill); T71/869 St George no. 42 and 94, T71/864 Port Royal no. 33 (for the awards to the awards to the executors of J. Thompson).

1. PROB 11/1842.

2. Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser Cumbria, England 30 Sep 1834.