P_10433_0757 – Peter Joye
Born: 1636
Died: 1721
Peter Joye (1636-1721), a co-owner of seven voyages from London and one from Bristol between 1700 and 1706, was a Baltic merchant and leading supplier of iron to the RAC between 1706 and 1710. He has an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as ‘merchant’.
Title: /
First name: Peter
Middle name: /
Last name: Joye
Aliases: /
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
Religion: /
Social background: /
Primary outcome: /
Political Affiliation: /
Relations
No information
Political Offices Held
No Information
Bankruptcies
No Information
Geographic experiences
No Information
Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Yes
Supplier of iron to the RAC
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Yes
Several bequests in his will including £1000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital for the long cure ward
Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: ODNB entry H.J. Paul, 'Suppliers to the Royal African Company and the Royal Navy in the Early Eighteenth Century', in J. Flynn-Paul, War, Entrepreneurs and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800 (2014), p. 139. Carswell, South Sea Bubble p. 251. PROB 11/578/515
Other Individuals
No information
Organisations
No information
Crossings (7)
41593 - Prosperous (1701 - 1701)
Role: Owner
21331 - Experiment (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
21316 - Sarah (1700 - 1701)
Role: Owner
21292 - Betty (1699 - 1700)
Role: Owner
21226 - Thomas and John (1704 - 1705)
Role: Owner
21225 - Codrington (1703 - 1704)
Role: Owner
20343 - Larke Gally (1705 - 1706)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1636
Location: /
Death
Date: 1721
Location: /
Burial
Date: /
Location: /
Memorial details: /
Christening: /
Knighthood: /
Baronetcy: /
Peerage: /
Residencies
City of London (Middlesex)
Learn moreOccupation: /
Schools
No Information
Universities
No Information
Inns of Court
No Information
Military training
No Information
Imperial positions
No Information
Apprenticeships
No Information
Livery company affiliations
No Information
Other business activities
No Information
Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
Value of Total Personalty: /
Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £21,000
Occupation: /
Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Peter Joye of London made 24/06/1718. He ordered he be buried at St Dunstans in the East. He ratified the settlement he had made on the Corporation of Sion Colledge [sic] relating to the charity school in St Ann Blackfriars. He left two buildings in Ram Alley in trust to be sold for the poor of the parish of St Ann with a preference for tailors or widows of tailors. Under his marriage settlement with his present wife he had agreed to settle £4000 on her unless he had purchased land yielding £400 p.a. for her: he had now done so, in the parish of St Mary Le Savoy, including land from the Earl of Dorsett [sic], and declared the condition met. Subject to this he left his real estate including land in Northamptonshire to his eldest son Charles. To forestall a challenge under the customs of the City, he left his second son James £8000 in addition to the £10,000 he had settled on him at marriage and released him from a debt of £5000 provided he agreed not to challenge the will. He left £1000 to his nephew William Joye and £800 to his niece Elizabeth Loveday. He left £3025 in different legacies to friends and relatives; £1000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital to be applied to the Long Cure Ward; £25 to the Ancient French Church; £25 to St Dunstans in the East with a further £25 when the pew he sat in was secured for his family; £50 to the Dutch Church in which he was baptised; £1000 to his executor to be distributed as Joye should order by word of mouth; and £50 each to the poor of Stockholm and the poor of Hamburg and £30 to the poor of Malaga. In a codicil of 1720 he added legacies of some £2600, of which £2200 was to Michael Fallett and his family, and some £400 to servants. In a second codicil he revoked his bequest of land to his eldest son Charles, and made his heir instead his younger son James, not only of the land in the original will but also of new estates for which Peter Joye had contracted but not fully paid for.
Legacies
No information
No information