P_10433_1002 – John Lewis
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Co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Happy Return in 1699 to Africa and Jamaica, and then co-owner of what appears to have been a continuation voyage under a different captain from Jamaica to Africa and back in 1700. Probably John Lewis of Jamaica then Blackheath, who was bankrupt in 1735.
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Primary cohort: London
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Bankruptcies
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London Gazette 3 June 1735Issue:7408Page:2
Geographic experiences
Americas
Merchant in Jamaica and then in London
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Sources: http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/bcarib57.htm London Gazette 3 June 1735Issue:7408Page:2; C 11/780/45 Description: Short title: Collett v Searle. Document type: Bill and answer.Plaintiffs: Samuel Collett, John Barker and Richard Fenton (assignes of John Lewis, esq merchant, a bankrupt, heretofore of the Island of Jamaica, West Indies, but late of Blackheath, Kent). Defendants: John Searl and Elizabeth Searl his wife.Date of bill (or first document): 1736 Note: The naming of a party does not imply that he or she will appear in all the documents in this cause (after the bill). C 6/407/39 Description: Short title: Edwards v Lone. Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Edwards widow. Defendants: William Lone, Abraham Parrott, Samuel Deane and Christopher Morgan. Subject: Payment of the wages of John Edwards mariner, the plaintiff's late husband, as a sailor on the ship Diligence. Having discharged its cargo of negroes [slaves], the ship was laden with sugars and other commodities and ran aground on the homeward journey. The defendants could not pay out any wages as Isaac Wild the ship's master, had not yet returned with the accounts of how much had already been paid out: mentions John Lewis merchant, of Jamaica, West Indies and Samuel Bromley merchant, of Jamaica, West Indies: Guinea Coast, Africa; Jamaica, West Indies; property in Gravesend, Kent and South Carolina, North Carolina, America. Document type: answer only. SFP Date: 1705
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Crossings (1)
21290 - Happy Return (1699 - 1700)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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