James Bradshaw
London merchant, d. c. 1783. James Bradshaw does not appear in the TASTDB, but he was shown as co-owner of the Oronoko under letters of marque in September 1759. TASTDB shows the Oronoko making two slaving voyages from Liverpool, one to Bonny and Barbados leaving 23/09/1759 and one to Bonny and St Domingue in 1761, both shown under the ownership of Stretch Cowley (the captain), Richard Cowley and John Cheshire: the latter two appear among the co-owners with James Bradshaw, John Bradshaw and Jacob Wilkinson of the ship under letters of marque (for which Stretch Cowley was commander).
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First name: James
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Last name: Bradshaw
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Sources: PROB 11/1102/35
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Date: 1783
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of James Bradshaw of Hathens [=Swithins] Lane City of London made 20/01/1783. In a codicil he left £50 to Mary, the wife of Richard Cowley. He left £5000 in trust for his sister Elizabeth wife of Edmund Pitts, and his share in the Rectory at Blackburn Lancashire to his nephew James Broadhurst. He had an annuity of £50 p.a. for the life of his nephew James Broadhurst on Alexander Sympson's Bon Accord estate in Grenada [sic: in fact it was on Tobago] that he left to his nephew, and two annuities secured on John Estridge's estate on St Kitts that he left to two other nephews.
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