P_10433_1842 – John Townson
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Owner of three recorded voyages by the Pitt, the Success and the Lucretia from London to Saint Louis and then to Grenada or Charleston in 1765-1766, almost certainly the owner of a second voyage in 1766-1767 of the Lucretia to Grenada with the same captain, William Falkland, as the earlier voyage, and probably the owner of two voyages by the Macleane in 1768-1769, also captained by William Falkland. John Townson was the owner of the Lucretia with the captain Wm Falkland in 1760 as a privateer.
A John Townson was active in the early years of New Lloyd’s 1769-1772. The will of John Townson merchant of St Mary Axe was proved in 1773; a second John Townson, director of the East India Co., MP for Milborne Port 1780-1787, died 1797. This second man, of Gray’s Inn, was connected with Lauchlin Macleane and was the son of Lucretia nee Wiltshire, suggesting he was the more likely of the two to have been the slave-trader.
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Townson
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Townson, Jno
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Sources:
PROB 11/984/275; https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666329
History of Lloyd's pp. 150 and 152.
https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/130-10-Schofield.pdf connects the voyage of the Chester to Jamaica in 1748 with John Townson of London. The owner appears as 'John Toranson' in TASTDB.
HCA 26/12/12
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