P_10433_0678 – Nathaniel Micklethwaite
Owner of three slaving voyages and co-owner of a further six slaving voyages, all from London, between 1698 and 1705. All four voyages with known destinations were destined for Jamaica having embarked captive Africans at unidentified places in Africa; a fifth embarked captive Africans at Madagascar. He was baptised at St Stephen, Coleman Street 07/08/1662. He inherited £1250, including the Coleman Street premises of his father Nathaniel Micklethwaite senior under the latter’s will proved 1686. At his death on April 8 1728 he was described as of Croydon and as one of the Directors of the South Sea Co.
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First name: Nathaniel
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Last name: Micklethwaite
Aliases: Micklethwaite, Nath
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Sarah Sutton
Spouse (married 10/09/1691)
Marriage at St Leonard's Shoreditch
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Internal migrant: No
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: No
Sources: PROB 11/622/17 The Historical Register: Containing an Impartial Relation of All ..., Volume 13 (1728).
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Organisations (2)
South Sea Company
Role: Director
Crossings (6)
25684 - Beckford (1698 - 1699)
Role: Owner
24101 - Judith (1705 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21281 - John and Thomas (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
20265 - Judith (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
20221 - John and Mary (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
20208 - Judith (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1662
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Death
Date: 1728
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Christening: 07/08/1662
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Nathaniel Micklethwaite merchant of [St Laurence Pountney] London made 06[?]/07/1724. He left his 'now built' house at the 'Backland in Croydon' to his wife Sarah for life and then to his son Jonathan, failing whom to his son Nathaniel, failing whom to his cousin also Nathaniel. He left his land at North End in Croydon and his messuage in Holborn that he purchased of Captain Wroth to his son Nathaniel. He left to his on Jonathan the £2000 he had promised on the latter's marriage, and £1000 to his son Nathaniel, and made his two sons his residuary heirs. In a codicil of 1724 he made a a series of bequests mostly of £10 each.
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