Jane Mico

The clauses in her will intended to relieve slavery, still manifests itself in the creation of Mico University College in Jamaica.

In 1688 her nephew Samuel received £100 a year from these funds towards his education at Magdalen College, Oxford after he made an appeal in the chancery courts.

He completed his education and claimed the whole of his inheritance but the excucutors resisted on the grounds that he was not yet reached the age of majority (21).

He did receive the bulk of his inheritance but he died in December 1679 and he was therefore unable to marry a niece and claim the conditional £1,000.

It ordered that £50 be set aside for two wharfs but it was not until 1731 that at was proposed that Sir Charles Wager use 75% of the remaining inheritance to spend the money in Jamaica in line with the legacy but nothing happened.

Initially the fund started to create schools across the West Indies including the Mico Institution in Jamaica in 1836.