P_10433_1740 – Gilbert Higginson
London tobacco merchant, partner with Robert Bird in Higginson and Bird, and with him co-owner of a single slaving voyage, of the Higginson to Calabar and York River in 1718. The two men were bankrupt in 1721. Gilbert Higginson appears to have relocated to the American colonies.
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Sources: London Gazette 26 September 1721Issue:5994Page:2 PROB 11/699/459. This will has not yet been read by DBS.
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75637 - Higginson
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Date: 18/10/1739
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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