P_10433_1808 – Benjamin Stead
Benjamin Stead (d. 1776), of South Carolina and then of London, merchant and slave-owner, owner or co-owner of six slaving voyages from London between 1763 and 1766, all destined for Charleston or Savannah , and probably of at least one further voyage, that of the Prince Tom in 1774. His will made in 1766 and proved in 1776 showed him as formerly of South Carolina and then of London. He was probably the man buried at St Peter, Woodmansterne in Surrey 01/06/1776 (one of his ships is given as the Woodmanstone).
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First name: Benjamin
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Last name: Stead
Aliases: Steed, Benjamin
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Slave-owner in S. Carolina and Georgia
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Plantation owner: Yes
His will included an estate and enslaved Africans in Georgia
Sources: The Prince Tom, captain Benjamin Mason to Africa and Jamaica leaving London in 1774 carries no ownership information in TASTDB. Lloyd's Register 1776 shows Prince Tom, now the Carolina Mermaid, captain Ben. Mason, owner Ben. Stead Rotdm Lo. The ship had two earlier voyages to Africa or Gambia and then to Savannah or Charleston in 1772 (voyage no. 78086, reportedly under Benjamin Jones) and 1773 (voyage no. 78124, under Benjamin Mason), again with no ownership information in TASTDB, which were probably also owned by Benjamin Stead. PROB 11/1021/42
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Crossings (7)
77789 - Britannia (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
77237 - Woodmanstone (1766 - 1766)
Role: Owner
77236 - Woodmanstone (1763 - 1763)
Role: Owner
76326 - Woodmanstone (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
75882 - Minories (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
75881 - Minories (1763 - 1764)
Role: Owner
78177 - Prince Tom (1774 - 1775)
Role: Owner
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Date: 1776
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Courts: PCC
Will of Benjamin Stead formerly of the province of South Carolina but now of Berners Street St Marylebone, merchant made 10/05/1766. He left his brother William Stead of Limpsfield in Surrey £100, three friends in South Carolina £50 each and instructed his house to be kept open 'in the same and as ample manner as if I were living' subject to a limit of £1000. He divided his residual estate into quarters, two to his son Benjamin, one quarter to his daughter Mary Stead and one to his daughter Elizabeth now Elizabeth Izard. His son was to 'allow upon a fair valuation of tryal [?]of £12000 upon the lands purchased of Mr Read in Georgia with the charges thereon £2000 and £50 a head for every negro.' He made his son and two daughters executors.
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