In 1791  Isaac Pickering bought the Foxlease estate  presumably from the widow of Sir Philip Jennings Clerke  who died in 1797  nine years after Sir Philip Little is known of Isaac  although he does seem to have had interests in the British Virgin Islands – a map of Tortola  60 miles east of Puerto Rico and the largest of the Islands  held by the National Maritme Museum  carries the inscription: ‘To Isaac Pickering Esq of Fox Lease Hants this Plan of Tortola from actual survey by George King’