P_10433_1947 – Hercules Mill
Born: Unknown
Died: 1806
London slave-ship captain and owner, captain of one voyage by the Peggy from London in 1770 and owner-captain of a second voyage in 1772, and sailing as captain for John Shoolbred (q.v.) in at least three other voyages between 1774 and 1776. He accumulated wealth, leaving £12,000 in trust for his children as well as landed property in 1807. He was part of a slave-trading family, with his brothers James Mill (q.v.) and David Mill (at one time Governor of Cape Coast Castle, then moving to Antigua), and their cousin John Mill (q.v.). The men often appear as ‘Mills’ and sometimes as ‘Milne’, rather than Mill.
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First name: Hercules
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Last name: Mill
Aliases: Mills, Hercules, Mill
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Gentry
Primary outcome: Trade
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Relations
Elizabeth Marion Louttit
Spouse (married 28/06/1784)
St Giles Camberwell
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Geographic experiences
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Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: No
Sources: The 1772 voyage of the Peggy would more logically have been owned by Ross & Mill, i.e. Gilbert Ross and James Mill, rather than Hercules Mill. PROB 11/1456/169 Will of James Mill, his brother John Shoolbred's captain for two voyages by the Hawke and one by the Peggy between 1774 and 1776 is identified only as 'Mill', but was identified as Hercules Mill for the Peggy in 1775 and for the Hawke in 1777: PROB 11/1010/119 Description: Will of Samuel Robe, Seaman on board the Snow Peggy Hercules Mill Master Trading on the Coast of Africa Date: 28 July 1775; and SP 78/305/20 Description: Folio 51: Hercules Mill, captain of the Hawke, to John Schoolbred, describing her treatment in Martinique, the conduct of the French and the actions of Bingham. Date and place: 1777 Oct 29 Montrose. Note: Enclosed with f. 49. Copy enclosed in f. 45. Copy. Date:1777 Oct 29
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Crossings (6)
78096 - Peggy (1772 - 1773)
Role: Captain-owner
78026 - Peggy (1770 - 1771)
Role: Captain
76338 - Wortman (1774 - 1775)
Role: Captain
75621 - Hawke (1775 - 1777)
Role: Captain
75968 - Peggy (1774 - 1774)
Role: Captain
78220 - Hawke (1776 - 1776)
Role: Captain
Birth
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Death
Date: 1806
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Burial
Date: 26/12/1806
Location: London (Middlesex)
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Residencies
Ipswich (Suffolk)
Learn moreOccupation: Mariner (Labourer)
Slave ship captain
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Was slave trading profitable: Yes
Will
Value of Total Personalty: /
Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £12,300
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Town/City: Ipswich (Suffolk)
Courts: PCC
Will of Hercules Mill of Ipswich Suffolk made 15/12/1806. He left £12000 in trust for his three children James, William and Margueretta at 21, and made his wife Elizabeth Marion Mill his residuary legatee, failing whom he left his estate at Northland [?] in Buckinghamshire to his son James. In a codicil he incorporated into his will the Crofton estate at Titchfield in Hampshire that he had just inherited from his brother James Mill.
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