P_10433_2057 – William Black
Owner of a single slaving voyage, that of the Poyntz to Loango and Barbados in 1736. A second voyage of the same ship the following year with the same captain has no ownership information in TASTDB but can reasonably be inferred also to have belonged to William Black. He was very probably the London merchant and ship-owner connected with the East India Co. whose will was proved in 1780.
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First name: William
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Last name: Black
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Sources: London Gazette 24 January 1729Issue:6851Page:1 TASTDB voyage no. 76902. E.G. Martin v Tomlinson, 1745 C 11/1940/12. E.G. ADM 106/1003/28 Description: William Black. Offers his ship the Hume, Captain William Chilton, now lying at Hamoaze Hole. Date: 1745 Jan 25. HCA 26/11/134 shows Abraham Hume and William Black among the owners of the Royal Duke in 1760, then under letters of marque. PROB 11/1070/345.
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Crossings (1)
76570 - Poyntz (1735 - 1736)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Under the will of William Black merchant of the City of London made 15/05/1776, he left all his real and personal estate in trust to his grandson Abraham Grimes, also his residuary legatee, instructing him to pay his [the testator's] sister Mary Wimbleton £30 p.a., his [Grimes'] father William Dixwell Grimes and mother £500 each and £50 each for mourning, and to pay Grimes' mother the dividends on £5000 on South Sea stock. He left £50 to the fund for the support of poor Dissenting ministers of the Presbyterian denomination in Cross Street, and monetary legacies to his servants. He left his grandson his house in New Broad Street with his [the testator's] daughter Mary Grimes to have use of it for life.
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