P_10433_1636 – Thomas King of Stamford Hill

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Birth

Date: 1748

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Death

Date: 1824

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Burial

Date: 26/01/1824

Location: Bath (Somerset)

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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies

Was slave trading profitable: Yes

Will

Value of Total Personalty: £120,000

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Courts: PCC

Under his will, Thomas King left £100 each to Trinity House and to the Foundling Hospital of which he had been a governor 'for many years', and monetary legacies of £100-£1000 to friends and nephews and £2000 to an Eliza Sarah Hunter [possibly a natural daughter] 'late at school at the misses Exeter in Cumberland Street.' He named his sons as Anthony Calvert and Henry (to each of whom he left £18,000), George (to whom he left £4000), Thomas Harper and William, the latter two among his executors. The will shows Thomas King's father as Newark King. He had settled £10,000 on his son Thomas Harper King on the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Catherine Hall, and provided that the balance he had not already advanced be paid; and he directed £6000 be added to the £8000 he had settled on his daughter Sarah Amelia ahead of her marriage to Thomas Pendawes Smith surgeon of Stoke Newington in 1815. He left £12,000 in trust (the trustees were his sons William and Thomas Harper King) for the benefit of his son George with discretion for the trustees as to how to dispense it and sanctions (the loss of the capital) on George if he was declared bankrupt. All the legacies were to be paid five years after his death, and bear interest until then. He left an annuity of £1500 p.a. to his wife Sarah, with the use of his house at Stamford Hill. His residual legatee and trustee was his son William King, who inherited the Friendship, Sarah and Schoonhoven or Schoonhaven ['Clean Harbour'] estates in Essequibo or Demerara together with the enslaved people attached to them. In a series of codicils Thomas King reflected the death of his son-in-law Thomas Pendawes Smith and made provision for his widowed daughter Sarah's children (Sarah Amelia Smith remarried, to Godfrey Greene Downes, in 1824).

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