P_10433_1610 – Anthony Bacon
London merchant and entrepreneur with seven slaving voyages between 1759 and 1766. He was entangled more broadly in the slave-economy with two partners, Gilbert Francklyn and Anthony Richardson, and in his own name became a significant pioneer in the South Wales metal industry.
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First name: Anthony
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Last name: Bacon
Aliases: Bacon, A, Bacon
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: No
Creditor to slave trade voyages: No
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Plantation owner: No
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146658735 Price, Jacob M. "Bacon, Anthony (bap. 1717, d. 1786), merchant and ironmaster." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 3 Apr. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-50608. Will of Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa, PROB 11/1138/300.
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Organisations (1)
Cyfarthfa Ironworks
Role: Founder
Crossings (7)
24863 - Revenge (1764 - 1764)
Role: Owner
75271 - Charming Molly (1762 - 1762)
Role: Owner
77870 - King of Bonny (1766 - 1766)
Role: Owner
77786 - King of Bonny (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
77722 - Kepple (1759 - 1760)
Role: Owner
77222 - Two Sisters (1763 - 1763)
Role: Owner
76153 - Sarah (1759 - 1760)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1786
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Christening: 1717
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Was slave trading profitable: No
Will
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Courts: PCC
Bacon left: his wife Elizabeth an annuity of £700 p.a. and the use of his house at Cyfarthfa for life; his niece Elizabeth Bacon £5000; his 'relation' Rev. Thomas Richardson an annuity of £200 p.a. secured on one of his furnaces; to his relative Anthony Richardson the debt owed to him by Gilbert Francklyn other than £1200 owed to the testator on a bond; to his half-brother William Bacon £500 and the property he [the testator] had in Virginia with others in the Dismal Swamp Co. He left his ironworks itself to Anthony the son of Mary Bushby and his coal assets to another of her sons, Thomas, whom he acknowledged as his children.
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Commerce
Industry: Industry
Region: Wales
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