P_10433_0960 – Benjamin Bradley or Bradly
Co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Calabar Merchant to Calabar and Virginia in 1701. Benjamin Bradley ironmonger of London was party to litigation including among others Peregrine Browne (q.v.) and John Browne (q.v.) in 1698-99 arising from a consortium put together to build and sell a ship. Benjamin Bradley appeared consistently in litigation in the 1710s and 1720s. The will of Benjamin Bradly [sic] of Hampstead was proved in 1731. Sarah Bradley, widow of Benjamin Bradley merchant deceased late of Hampstead, was in litigation in 1733. The Benjamin Bradley of London Street who was bankrupt in 1737 was possibly his son.
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First name: Benjamin
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Last name: Bradley
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: E.g. C 11/1483/14 Description: Short title: Copper Miners of England v Bradley. Document type: Answer only. Plaintiffs: Governors and Company of Copper Miners in England. Defendants: Benjamin Bradley, merchant of London and others. Date of bill (or first document): 1730 C 11/512/21 PROB 11/648/297 London Gazette 26 April 1737Issue:7606Page:2
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21258 - Calabar Merchant (1701 - 1702)
Role: Owner
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Date: 1731
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Date: 21/12/1731
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Hampstead
Occupation: Ironmonger (Craft)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Will of Benjamin Bradly [sic] [senior of the City of London merchant and a freeman of the same City but now living at] Hampstead made 20/05/1726. [The will was attested by James Bradly and Ann Bradly, two of Benjamin Bradly's children 22/12/1731]. He left significant property in Hampstead to his wife Sarah for life, and then specific parts of it to his daughters Ann and Sarah and son William. He left £100 to his son James to make up to James what he had already given to his other two elder children Benjamin and Joanna, and left £600 each to his three younger children. He made his wife sole executrix and his six children his residuary heirs.
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