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Will of Jacob Ricketts, 1756

[PRO London, PROB 11/826]

I Jacob Ricketts1 of the parish of Westmoreland and island of Jamaica planter...
Bequeath to my sister-in-law Mrs Mary Poyntz the sum of £30 Sterling to be paid to her yearly during [her] life...
Unto my cousin Waite Debell [or Dibble]2 and his wife Martha £10 Sterling to be paid them or the survivor of them yearly during their natural lives...
Unto my cousin Jane Parsons widow the sum of £10 Sterling yearly...
Unto Thomas Johnson son of my cousin Jacob Johnson £100 currency to be paid within three months after my decease...
Unto my cousin Mary Goldring widow £10 Sterling to be paid to her yearly...and it is my desire that her son Benjamin Goldring shall be maintained and educated in reading writing and accounts to fifteen years of age and then be put apprentice to some handicraft trade and when he is out of his time to be paid £200 Sterling to set him up in business...
It is my desire that the free mulatto James be maintained and educated at school in reading writing and accounts and then put to some handicraft trade and when he is out of his time to be paid £300 currency to set him up...
It is my desire that the child my Negro named Aurilla is now big with shall be maintained enfranchised and set free and shall have at the age of twenty one year £100 or three Negroes...
All the remainder of my estate...real or personal...I give unto my loving son George Poyntz Ricketts3 and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten...in case of failure...unto my brother William Henry Ricketts4he paying unto John Ricketts and Alexander Ricketts sons of my brother John Ricketts5 each £1,000 currency when they arrive at the age of  twenty one years...
I appoint my honoured father George Ricketts Esq.6 my loving brother John Ricketts and my loving cousin Jacob Johnson Ricketts executors of this my last will and testament...

Jacob Ricketts, 8th April 1754
Witnesses, J. Jervis, Alexander Willox, Samuell Burton

Codicil
I Jacob Ricketts of Bottom Row in the county of Middlesex [England] but late of the parish of Westmoreland in the island of Jamaica...
bequeath unto my dear friend Sir William Milner of Nun Appleton in the county of York Baronet the sum of £50 for mourning and to Miss Elizabeth Milner his daughter my gold watch and the woman's chain ...
Unto my honoured father all my plate and my four wheel post chariot and harness...
Unto my dear brother William Henry Ricketts all my household linen wearing apparel and linen whatsoever and my gold watch chain and seals...
And I appoint Sir William Milner to be joint executor and guardian to my son George Poyntz Ricketts during his minority...
Jacob Ricketts, 17th April 1755
Witnesses, George Townshend, William Parker, William Francis

Proved in London, 10th December 1756
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1National Archives, London, CO 142/31, Landowners, 1754: Jacob Ricketts 600 acres, St. Elizabeth
2 Unidentified; see will of John Ricketts, 1767 for alternative spelling
3 Mother of George Poyntz Ricketts was Hannah Poyntz, daughter of Joseph Poyntz of Midgham, Jamaica. George Poyntz Ricketts was Governor of Barbados 1794 - 1800
4 National Archives, London, CO 142/31, Landowners, 1754: William Ricketts, 2,100 acres, Westmoreland
5 Ibid. John Ricketts, 1,787 acres, Westmoreland
6 George Ricketts of Canaan , Westmoreland 1684-1760; his wife Sarah Wayte/Waite [d.1760]


Part of Westmoreland, c. 1760

Ricketts of Jamaica at Canaan and Prospect [Rickets near top of map]


Will of John Ricketts, 1767

[PRO London, PROB 11/926]

Jamaica SS

24th July 1766

I John Ricketts of Prospect in the parish of Westmoreland...island of Jamaica...
Give to my brother William Henry Ricketts £50 Sterling to buy him a mourning ring
To Mary Ricketts the wife of my said brother £50 Sterling...
Unto my cousin Dibble1 the annual sum of £20 Sterling during her natural life...
Unto my daughter Sarah Ricketts £1,000 Sterling to be paid at the age of twenty one years or day of marriage...the interest thereof in the meantime to be applied for her maintenance and education...if my daughter should depart this life before...
I bequeath the £1,000 amongst my four sons George Crawford Ricketts, John Ricketts, Alexander Ricketts and William Henry Ricketts and to the survivor of them share and share alike...
I desire that all the produce of my estate called Prospect be consigned to Mr Thomas Collett of London as factor or agent until all the sums of money due from me to him be fully paid...
Then my executors hereinafter mentioned may continue to consign the same to him or to such other person as they shall think proper...
I give unto my wife Ann Ricketts2 the annual sum of £300 during her natural lifetime...in lieu of her dower or thirds at Common Law...
I hereby make chargeable all my estates real and personal with the payment of all my debts legacies and annuities...
I bequeath all my estate called Prospect or elsewhere in the island of Jamaica unto my brother William Henry Ricketts, David Findly, John Kinloch, Thomas Collett and Robert Joseph Dunn in trust for my four sons until they arrive at their ages of twenty one, I mean until the youngest of them shall have attained that age...and so soon as any shall have attained the age of twenty one my trustees do pay to them his or their shares of the profits and produce of Prospect...
If it should happen that all my four sons should die before the age of twenty one then I bequeath my said estate unto my daughter Sarah Ricketts...if she should die without issue...then I devise my said estate unto my brother William Henry Ricketts and my nephew George Poyntz Ricketts as tenants in common...
I declare that the provision herein made for my sons and daughter shall not be taken to be any satisfaction for what they may claim out of my estate by virtue of the last will and testament of my late father George Ricketts...
I appoint William Henry Ricketts, David Findly, John Kinloch, Thomas Collett and Robert Joseph Dunn  as executors of my will and guardians of my children...and my four sons to be executors when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty one.

John Ricketts, [date as above]
Witnesses, Robert Baker, Archibald Gatt**ich, James Wilson

Proved in London, 17th February 1767 by William Henry Ricketts and Thomas Collett
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1For an alternative spelling 'Debell' see will of Jacob Ricketts, 1756
2 Ann Crawford, daughter of Alexander Crawford of Crail in Fifeshire


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