P_10433_0423 – Abraham Mendez or Mendes
Abraham Mendez was shown as owner or co-owner of two groups of voyages from London, three between 1698 and 1701 (of which he was sole owner of two), and three between 1711 and 1713 (of which all three were with co-owner Isaac da Costa Alvarenga (q.v.)) in the Abraham and Isaac. Because of the bipolar distribution, it is possible that there were two men of this name engaged in these slave-trading voyages from London to Jamaica and Barbados, one the London merchant and brother and executor of Solomon Moses de Mendez of St Catherine Coleman dying c. 1730, the other Abraham Mendes junior, probably a cousin, also a London merchant with a will made 21/02/1727 of Chester and proved in 1731, but Eli Faber treats the Abraham Mendez of 1698-1701 and 1711-13 as the same man, the London merchant Abraham Mendez senior (given by Faber as Mendes), and associates him also as ship-owner with slaving voyages in 1715 and 1719 by the King Solomon undertaken under the authorisation of the South Sea Co.
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First name: Abraham
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Last name: Mendez
Aliases: Mendez, Abraham
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
Religion: Jewish
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Sources: PROB 11/639/51 Eli Faber, Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade, pp. 32, 34 and 38. TASTDB shows the slaving voyage (no. 75733) by the King Solomon in 1715 to Whydah/Ouidah and Portobelo as owned by the South Sea Co. and has no information on the ownership of the 1719 slaving voyage to the Gold Coast and Kingston. SP 35/4/56 Description: South Sea Company to Townshend Stating they have ordered the arms and ammunition, now on board their ship the King Solomon, to be delivered for the service of the government. List of arms: 1194 guns of 24 balls; 550 militia muskets with bayonets; 160 brown militia muskets; 1904 guns in total. Date: 1715 Nov 4
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Crossings (6)
98843 - Abraham and Isaac
Role: Owner
21314 - Dolphin (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
20925 - Abraham and Isaac (1712 - 1713)
Role: Owner
20602 - Abraham and Isaac
Role: Owner
15130 - Dolphin (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
15129 - Abraham and Moses (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1730
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £5,700
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Courts: PCC
Will of Abraham Mendez senior, merchant of St Mary Hill, City of London, made 08/03/1728. He appointed his wife Deborah Mendez, his good friend Daniel de Florey of London and his kinsman Jacob Massiah as his executors (with his good friend Benjamin Mendez de Costa appointed if all three died). He left £50 to his son Isaac Mendez and otherwise excluded him from the will (apart from his contingent inheritance) on the basis that Isaac Mendez had had 'considerable advancements' from him. He left his son Jacob Mendez £50; his daughters Sarah and Esther £30 each; his grandchildren Deborah Mendez and Moses Mendez 30 guineas in gold each; Jacob Massiah £100; and his leasehold house at St Mary Hill and household effects to his wife. The rest of his estate he left in trust to be liquidated and invested in 'East India Co., South Sea or Bank Stocks or South Sea annuities or in East India or South Sea bonds', with the income to his wife for life and then the division into three sums of £1000, £2500 and £2000. The £1000 was for his grandson Abraham Mendez, son of his son Isaac Mendez, failing whom to his daughter Sarah and her heir failing whom to his son Jacob and his heirs etc; the £2500 was for his daughter Esther for life and then to his grandson Abraham etc.; and the £2000 for his daughter Sarah for life and then to his son Jacob or his heirs if 'begotten on any Portuguese or Spanish Jewish wife.' He made his son Jacob his residuary heir, then Jacob's children by a Spanish or Portuguese Jew whom he may marry, failing whom to his daughter Esther and his grandson Abraham equally. He authorised his wife to leave £2000 from the estate at her death.
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