P_10433_1478 – Thomas Kerby
Thomas Kerby (d. c. 1748), London merchant and slave-owner and slave-factor formerly of Antigua, co-owner of two slaving voyages from London by the Gold Coast Gally to the Gold Coast/Africa and St John Antigua in 1725 and 1726.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Kerby
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Internal migrant: No
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: Yes
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664099
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146664099 PROB 11/761/230
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Crossings (2)
27901 - Gold Coast Gally (1726 - 1727)
Role: Owner
76659 - Gold Coast Gally (1725 - 1726)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1748
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Burial
Date: 17/04/1748
Location: City of London (Middlesex)
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Residencies
Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
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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): £6,000
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Thomas Kerby [late of Antigua] merchant Mincing Lane made 07/06/1746 proved 14/04/1748. The will - rich in detail - has not been fully analysed but included the following provisions. He left his daughter Sarah Kerby a 'negro woman' called Frances who had attended her since she was a child and 'reputed hers', as well as another enslaved woman named Sarah daughter of 'my negro woman' Dido and a young boy named Little Toney, son of a woman named Molley and 'one of those that I bought with my Old North Sound plantation from Mr Nathaniel Carpenter, Mrs [Mr?] Thomas Thornbery and others.' He specified that an enslaved woman named Celia in his possession or that of his son Hamilton at Antigua or his sister Warner was also the property of his daughter Sarah, bought for her from money given her by Col. Valentine Morris. He left her £2000 and a further £1000 if she should marry and survive her husband, together with an annuity of £100 p.a.: he left her £200 p.a. until marriage. He left his daughter Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Warner of Antigua an enslaved woman named Phillis who had usually attended her when she was a child and called hers, and three other named enslaved people. He left his son-in-law Thomas Warner £2000. He manumitted a woman named Molley then with him in Britain and left her £6 p.a. for her care of his deceased wife; and he manumitted a 'negro man' named Cuffee 'now with me in England' and left him an annuity of £6 p.a. provided he [Cuffee] continued in his service for his life. His residuary heir was his son Hamilton: another son Thomas Norbury had predeceased him, as had his daughter Jane Blizard.
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