P_10433_0378 – Thomas Merritt or Merrett
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Major London slave-trader, owner or co-owner of 32 slaving voyages from London between 1698 and 1709, nineteen with Joseph Martyn of Love Lane (q.v.). Despite his prominence in the slave-trade, nothing has been traced definitively of him in London in either primary or secondary sources.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Merrett
Aliases: Merret, Thomas, Merritt, Thomas
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: Pettigrew p. 231 gives Merritt. 'Entry Book: October 1690, 1-10', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 9, 1689-1692, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1931), pp. 835-847. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol9/pp835-847 [accessed 27 February 2023]. London Gazette 2 January 1720Issue:5813Page:2; Thomas Merrett cornfactor left a brief will (as Thomas Merett of Wandsworth) in 1720, in which he made his son John Merritt his universal legatee. Journals of the House of Commons, vol. XVI, p. 236 (9 December 1712); for the signatories, TNA, T70/175, ff. 150-151. RB6/41, P. 528, Barbados Records Wills and Administrations Volume 1, 2 and 3 Compiled and Edited by Joanne McRee Sanders; Caribbeana Vol. 1 p. 142. Mary, wife to a Thomas Merritt, was buried at St Mary Cayon St Kitts Sept. 15 1734.
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Crossings (32)
21305 - Ormond Gally (1699 - 1701)
Role: Owner
24290 - North Sound (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
24272 - Lusitania (1700 - 1700)
Role: Owner
24224 - William (1702 - 1702)
Role: Owner
24214 - Blossom (1701 - 1701)
Role: Owner
24156 - Expectation (1703 - 1703)
Role: Owner
24114 - Thomas (1706 - 1706)
Role: Owner
21358 - Thomas (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21319 - Thomas (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
21308 - George (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
21303 - Experiment (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
21293 - Whidah (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
21284 - Sarah (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
21270 - Unity (1698 - 1699)
Role: Owner
21176 - London Gally (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21163 - Way Gally (1704 - 1704)
Role: Owner
21148 - Thomas Frigott (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
20894 - Roberts Bonadventure (1706 - 1707)
Role: Owner
20811 - John and Constance (1707 - 1708)
Role: Owner
20804 - William (1707 - 1707)
Role: Owner
20790 - Sidney (1707 - 1708)
Role: Owner
20344 - Amiable (1705 - 1706)
Role: Owner
20263 - Happy Return (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
20208 - Judith (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
20177 - New Frierby (1699 - 1699)
Role: Owner
20175 - Don Jasper (1698 - 1699)
Role: Owner
15234 - Dorothea (1710 - 1711)
Role: Owner
15205 - Three Crownes (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15195 - John and Constance (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15185 - Dorothea (1709 - 1710)
Role: Owner
15117 - William (1702 - 1703)
Role: Owner
15093 - Hunter (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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