P_10433_1467 – George Fryer
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London merchant and slave-trader of Brewer Street (d. c. 1750), shown as owner of 4 slaving voyages from London and co-owner of a fifth between 1741 and 1746, and also owner of a sixth from London in 1748 that appears under ‘George Fryerhow’. His involvement in the slave-trade extended beyond these voyages: Hancock shows George Fryer as the seller of Bance Island to the ‘Associates’, for example, while George Fryer merchant of London was executor of the will of John Graham, master of the slave-trading ship the Oxford at Jamaica proved 1739.
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First name: George
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Last name: Fryer
Aliases: Fryer, Geo
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Yes
George Fryer appears as a party in litigation in 1746 over cutlasses supplied from Birmingham destined for Africa and seized in London, SP 36/87/3/58
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Sources: Voyage no. 76205 by the Saint Philip, given in TASTDB as owned by 'George Fryerhow', is shown as owned by George Fryer in a letter from Thomas Boteler to Francis Boteler dated 17/03/1749 which gives the captain as Geddis and the Saint Philip as a 'very large ship' at Annamaboe, http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications/brs23.pdf [accessed 06/11/2022]. Hancock, Citizens of the World (p. 177). PROB 11/694/355 proved 16/02/1739, Will of John Graham, Master of the Merchant Ship Oxford now in the River of Thames bound to Guinea and the West Indies. Will of George Fryer of Brewer Street Middlesex PROB 11/787/84. C 11/1073/3 Description: Short title: Royal African Company v Fryer. Document type: Bill and answer. Plaintiffs: Royal African Company. Defendants: George Fryer and Alexander Dundas. Date of bill (or first document): 1743.
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Crossings (6)
27135 - Glasgow (1744 - 1745)
Role: Owner
77573 - Allen and Agnes (1746 - 1747)
Role: Owner
77546 - Saint Fernando (1742 - 1742)
Role: Owner
77543 - Speaker Gally (1741 - 1741)
Role: Owner
77535 - Black Prince (1741 - 1742)
Role: Owner
76205 - Saint Philip (1748 - 1750)
Role: Owner
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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): £8,500
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Town/City: London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of George Fryer of Brewers Street merchant made 15/11/1749. He left £1500 in trust (his trustees were Sir John Gordon bart.; Timothy Waldo of London; and Allan Auld) with the income for Mrs Elizabeth Rogers then living with him at Brewer Street for life and then the principal to William John Fryer, his son with Elizabeth Rogers, failing whom to his other son George Samuel Fryer. He left £2500 in trust to support George Samuel Fryer, identified as his son by Mrs Honoria Gardiner, with the principal at 21, and £500 to Honoria Gardiner. He left £1000 for William John Fryer's education and maintenance; £3000 in trust with the income to his brother and two sisters, William Fryer, Mrs Elizabeth Ross and Mrs Jane Gillespie.; £100 each to his trustees; and £100 to James Davison, and made his two sons residuary legatees. By a codicil he left sufficient money to Mrs Lucy Clelland widow of Major William Clelland to make up to £3000 the amount she received from Casaubon Botise [sp? Behic] & Co of Cadiz.
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