Gilbert Fleming
Slave-owner and merchant of St Kitts (d. 1762). Together with other St Kitts merchants, he owned the Tankerville, a privateer, in 1758. The following year the Tankerville made a slaving voyage under the same commander to Cape Coast Castle and Basse-Terre for which no ownership information is shown in TASTDB but which can reasonably be inferred to have been owned by Gilbert Fleming et al.
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First name: Gilbert
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Last name: Fleming
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Sex: Male
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Primary outcome: Gentry
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Lieutenant-General of HM's Leeward Islands
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Merchant on St Kitts
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: HCA 26/10/94 Description: Commander: David Adam. Ship: Tankerville. Burden: 230 tons. Crew: 30. Owners: Gilbert Fleming, Robert Colhoun, John and William Halliday, George Douglas and Francis Phillips of St Christophers, merchants, and Captain David Adam. 1758 November 4. Voyage no. 76241. PROB 11/874/59
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Crossings (1)
76241 - Tankerville (1759 - 1759)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1762
Location: London (Middlesex)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
Will of Honourable Gilbert Fleming, Lieutenant-General of HM's Leeward Islands [now residing in London]made 17/04/1760 and proved 04/03/1762. He subjected his Salt Ponds estate 'with the negroes and stock thereto belonging' as additional security for the annuity of £500 p.a. to his wife Ann if his Shadwell estate was insufficient to support it. He had an estate also in Tortola which he left to his grandson Gabriel Wayne subject to monetary legacies to his two grand-daughters of £1500 each. He left his son Gilbert Fane his residual estate, after other monetary legacies, and bequests for rings to the Dowager Countess Lady Tankerville. Among his bequests was his own portrait by 'van Loo', which he left to his wife for life.
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