Henry Turpin

Slave-owner in Jamaica, retiring or travelling to Britain and dying in Lincolnshire c. 1838.

1. Will of Henry Turpin [late of Farm Hill in the West Indies but now] of Potterhanworth in Lincolnshire [made in 1828] proved 14/05/1838. He left legacies totalling £500 to his brothers, and £2000 in trust for the benefit of his sister Sarah Turpin for life and then to her children (if any), and £1000 in trust on similar terms for his sister Elizabeth, the wife of Anthony Partridge. He left his estate and enslaved people at Dunsinane in Jamaica to Eleanor Penny spinster of Dunsinane of life, and then to be sold for the benefit of his 'cousins' Henry Stanley Robert Pearce and Henrica Stanley Leger Pearce. He had inherited the estates of Farm Hill and Gales Mount under the will of Henry Stanley of Kennington (q.v.) for life, and believing [he said] that he had barred the entail, left them to Robert Pearce, as well as two pieces of land in Portland called Turpin's and Stanley's. He gave no explanation for his preference for Robert Pearce (who was also his residuary legatee) over his own family but voided the legacies to any of the latter who contested the will. His trustees were Robert Pearce of Kennington Lane and Hector Mitchell of Kingston Jamaica (both of whom q.v.)

1. PROB 11/1896/79.