P_10433_1903 – Thomas Eden
Owner with unnamed others of two voyages from London by the Sim between 1775 and 1777, the first to Anomabu and then to Jamaica and the Honduras, the second to the Gold Coast and then Dominica. Given only as Eden but highly likely to have been Thomas Eden, one-time partner with Christopher Court (q.v.) in the tobacco trade: correspondence of the two with the Courts of Dominica c. 1781 support this.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Eden
Aliases: Eden
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Gentry
Primary outcome: Trade
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Sources: Papers of Continental Congress p. 1189. The Eden Papers at Durham University Library Special Collections contain correspondence of Thomas Eden (1745-1805) with Christopher Court and describe him as the fourth son of Sir Robert Eden 3rd bart. EDE/C26/1. Elsewhere the finding aid also describes Thomas Eden (c. 1734-1807) deputy auditor of Greenwich Hospital as son of Robert Eden 3rd bart. These appear to be the same man, linked by the attestation of the will of Thomas Eden in 1805, which refers to him as of Wimbledon, Savage Gardens and Greenwich Hospital. PROB 11/1431/323.
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Crossings (2)
77258 - Sim (1777 - 1777)
Role: Owner
76174 - Sim (1775 - 1776)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1745
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Death
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Burial
Date: 08/05/1805
Location: Wimbledon (Surrey)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
Will of Thomas Eden of Wimbledon made 14/08/1803. 'My affairs being in that sort of unsettled and deranged state from there partnerships' book not being wrote up for several years,' he had little idea what his property was, 'but there must be a very considerable sum due to me.' [Later in the will he identified his partners as Christopher and Thomas Court]. His wife Mariana, he said, had an annuity of £1000 p.a. 'from the archbishop's goodness' [this appears to refer to his brother-in-law John Moore, archbishop of Canterbury]. He authorised her with the consent of two executors to use any part of his fortune to advance their children, and to leave £1000 under her own will.
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