P_10433_1713 – James Kettle
James Kettle (d. 1745), owner-captain alongside the South Sea Co. and others of a slaving voyage from London by the Grenadier to Whydah/Ouidah and Jamaica in 1725, and captain of two further slaving voyages for the South Sea Co. from London by the City of London in 1728 and 1730. His will is a trust will, unusual for a ship’s captain. He married Elizabeth Corsellis, the daughter of Nicholas Corsellis MP For Colchester.
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First name: James
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Last name: Kettle
Aliases: Kettle
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Elizabeth Corsellis
Spouse (married 09/08/1735)
Married at St Benet Paul's Wharf, City of London
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Plantation owner: No
Sources: PROB 11/738/362. The probate grant is dated in the original as 19/03/1744, apparently in error. C 11/2112/17. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/corsellis-nicholas-1661-1728. The Nicholas Corsellis who was executor of his will was his brother-in-law.
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Crossings (3)
75562 - Grenadier (1725 - 1726)
Role: Captain-owner
76721 - City of London (1730 - 1731)
Role: Captain
76618 - City of London (1728 - 1729)
Role: Captain
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Death
Date: 1745
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Burial
Date: 08/02/1745
Location: Colchester (Essex)
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Occupation: Mariner (Labourer)
Slave-ship captain
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of James Kettle of Goodmans Fields, Middlesex gentleman made 13/12/1744. He left his household goods to his wife Elizabeth, and his real estate in trust [his trustees were Nicholas Corsellis of Wyvenhoe and Thomas Smith of Goodmans Fields] for the benefit of his wife for life and then to his sister Elizabeth Forbes the elder for life, then to his nephew Patrick Coppenger son of Elizabeth Forbes and his heirs, subject to a charge of £750 to his niece Elizabeth Forbes the daughter of Elizabeth Forbes the elder, with contingent remainder of the real estate to Elizabeth Forbes the younger failing whom to Nicholas Corsellis. He left his residuary personal estate to in trust to be sold and invested in 'Government or other good securities' and the interest paid to his wife Elizabeth for life, and then suffice too the stock to be sold to pay a series of legacies totalling some £130 to a range of women, married and unmarried, in and around Essex, with the remainder invested for Elizabeth Forbes the elder for life and then to Patrick Coppenger and his heirs. [Administration of the will as far as it concerned several houses in Stepney (possibly the mortgages over them rather than the houses themselves) was granted in 1827 to John Coles Symes as representative of two men in Hampshire, after the intestacy of Thomas Panuwell's sister Sophia Smith].
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