P_10433_0192 – Butler
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Given in the TASTDB simply as ‘Butler’ for a single voyage of the O’Hara in 1766 from Saint Louis to Antigua, and in Lloyd’s Register 1768 against the O’Hara as ‘Mr Butler’. It seems highly likely that the ship was named after Charles O’Hara, Governor of Senegambia 1765-1776. A Whitwell Butler – an army officer – rented his house in Senegal to the Chief Justice between 1766 and 1769. The O’Hara made another voyage in 1767 with the same captain to Dominica (for which no ownership information is given in TASTDB), and a further voyage to Dominica by a ship of the same name in 1777 (then owned by John Clark) is very likely the same ship. The ship O’Hara was insured in 1777 by Robert Brown [sic]: in the will of Charles O’Hara proved in 1802 he blamed his financial distress on his agent Robert Browne.
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London
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Charles O'Hara, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146656111
T 1/469/432-433 Description: SENEGAL AND SENEGAMBIA: Memorial of Whitwell Butler, for payment of rent on his house in Senegal let for use of Chief Justice, 23 June 1766-7 Feb. 1769 Date: 1769 Apr. 25
T 1/536/185-186 Description: ENGLAND AND WALES: Miscellaneous: Insurance policy in name of Robert Brown upon the ship O'Hara with underwriters' signatures Date: 1777 Mar 19.
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