P_10433_0552 – Drewry Ottley
Drewry Ottley, slave-owner of St Kitts, progenitor of a dynasty of slave-owners in the Leeward Islands and co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Anne Galley to Gambia and St Kitts that was wrecked at Montserrat in 1716 with the death of many of the captive Africans.
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First name: Drewry
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Last name: Ottley
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Slave-owner on St Kitts
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146640617 PROB 11/860/471. HCA 15/34. There is a letter detailing the voyage from Drewry Ottley to William Coleman dated 28th August 1717 at the Slave Rebellion website, http://slaverebellion.info/index.php?page=ship-ann-galley. Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750.
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Crossings (1)
15220 - Anne Gally (1716 - 1717)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1760
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Burial
Date: 14/11/1760
Location: Westminster (London)
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Was slave trading profitable: No
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Courts: PCC
Will of Drewry Ottley of [St Kitts but now] of James Street St Andrew Holborn made 06/03/1759. In the will he showed his son Drewry as having predeceased him [c. 1751]; his grandson Drewry was his main heir.
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