P_10433_1275 – Richard Meriwether
Richard Merriweather [sic] was co-owner of two slaving voyages from London in 1699 and 1701, for neither of which is further information known as to the outcome of the voyage. This was almost certainly Richard Meriwether, London merchant and slave-owner (d. 1714), who was in partnership with Azariah Pinney in developing slave-estates on Nevis c. 1697-1714.
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First name: Richard
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Last name: Meriwether
Aliases: Richard Merriweather
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Plantation owner: Yes
Co-owner with Azariah Pinney of several plantations and the enslaved people attached to them on Nevis.
Sources: Richard Meriweather [sic] was active on Nevis c. 1697-1714, partner with Azariah Pinney, https://seis.bristol.ac.uk/~emceee/mountravers~part2chapter1.pdf; Beinecke M3. PROB 11/538/81
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Crossings (2)
41593 - Prosperous (1701 - 1701)
Role: Owner
24288 - Nightingale (1699 - 1699)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1714
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Burial
Date: 18/01/1714
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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Richard Meriwether merchant of London made 24/12/1713. He left his moiety of the Lady Bawden's plantation, his interest in Sharlowes and Bates and all other plantations on Nevis to his nephews Christopher Slade ('now living upon the plantation where Azariah Pinney lives' on Nevis) and William Slade, 'together with the live or dead stock' upon them, subject to: annuities of £50 p.a to his sister Anna Quinsey and £20 p.a. to her daughter Elizabeth Fry; annuities of £20 p.a. each to his three sisters; £100 to every child of his sisters Bathsheba Wantsey and Sarah Wickham. He left: John Pinney one moiety of 'four of the best Negroes' on his estates; £10 to ten poor men and women of the parish of Great Sutton in Wiltshire; and a bell worth £10 to the parish of St John Figtree on Nevis. His residuary heirs were the Slade brothers, failing whom his cousin Thomas Wantsey and another William Slade, son of Dorothy Slade of Warminster.
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