P_10433_0793 – George Hamilton
George Hamilton (d.c. 1745), slave-ship captain and part-owner of half a dozen voyages, and between 1737 and 1744. Captain of the slave factory the Argyle and ‘chief manager of the trade on the African coast’ on behalf of a syndicate led by Henry Lascelles (q.v.) and including Richard Pinnell (q.v.) and Thomas Hall (q.v). He left over £10,000 in monetary legacies, including provision for a natural son William ‘brought with me’ from the coast of Africa, where William’s mother Elizabeth lived and apparently traded at Cape Coast Castle.
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First name: George
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Last name: Hamilton
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Africa
Stationed at Annamaboe 1737-1744 as Captain of the floating factory the Argyle and manager of the business of Henry Lascelles et al. on the gold Coast.
Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: Conrad Gill, Merchants and Mariners of the 18th century (1961), pp. 93-97. C 11/2189/18 PROB 11/739/41.
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Crossings (9)
20680 - Argyle (1728 - 1728)
Role: Captain
77039 - Argyle (1733 - 1734)
Role: Captain-owner
76884 - Argyle (1736 - 1737)
Role: Captain-owner
76878 - Whidah (1736 - 1736)
Role: Owner
76821 - Mary (1733 - 1734)
Role: Owner
76783 - Argyle (1731 - 1732)
Role: Captain
76684 - Argyle (1730 - 1730)
Role: Captain
76579 - Mary (1735 - 1736)
Role: Owner
76577 - Sarah (1736 - 1738)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1745
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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): £11,650
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
The will of George Hamilton of the city of London [made 10/03/1744] was proved 01/04/1745. He left £4000 in trust, instructing his trustees (Thomas Hall of Ormond Street; Captain John Dunning of the City of London and Mrs [sic] Susanna Dickenson of the same place spinster) to deposit it in the Bank of England with the interest to be spent on the maintenance and education 'and breeding up' of his son William Hamilton, child of Elizabeth Hamilton, 'which said child I brought with me from the Coast of Africa', with the principal and unutilised interest payable to William Hamilton at 21. If he died the money was to be divided between George Hamilton's brothers Gustavus (£2000) and Frederick (£1000) and his sister Mary the wife of Brian DuCarill [sp?] (£1000). He left £2000 to Susanna Dickenson to be paid 6 months after his death, and £200 to his mother Mary Hamilton. He gave £400 to Elizabeth Hamilton the mother of his said son William to be transmitted to her in goods and merchandise at Cape Coast Africa where she then resided. He gave £2000 to his brother Gustavus; £500 to Capt. John Dunning; £1000 to his sister Jane Vicars [sp?] and her four children; £500 to his brother Frederick; £50 to his friend Abraham Wells of Blackheath; £500 to his sister Mary DuCarill; and £500 to Thomas Hall. All the legacies except to William Hamilton and Susanna Dickenson were to be paid once his executors had gathered in his estate. He left his household effects in his dwelling house in Gold [presumably Golden] Square to Susanna Dickenson. After gifts of personal effects and smaller legacies to local tradesmen, servants and nurses, he made his brother Gustavus his residuary heir.
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