P_10433_2071 – Edward Jasper
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Died: 1749

London merchant and naval agent (d. 1749), co-owner with Henry Lascelles and others of two slaving voyages from London in 1736, one to Africa and Havana and one to Anomabu and an unknown disembarkation point, almost certainly the co-owner with Sir Robert Lawley of a further slaving voyage by the Prince William to Africa and Barbados in 1734, and partner with Henry Lascelles and others in another – unrecorded – voyage, by the Adventure to Senegal in 1735.
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Last name: Jasper
Aliases: Edward Jesper
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Sources: Douglas Hamilton (2004) Private enterprise and public service: Naval contracting in the Caribbean, 1720–50, Journal for Maritime Research, 6:1, 37-64, DOI: 10.1080/21533369.2004.9668336, at p. 47. The case arising from this voyage by the Adventure was C 11/2551/33 Description: Short title: Neal v Sclater. Document type: Bill only. Plaintiffs: Henry Neal, esq of Bedford Row, London, Henry Lascelles, esq of Mincing Lane, London, Thomas Revell, esq of the Victualling Office, London, Francis Gashry, esq of the Admiralty Office, London and Edward Jasper, gent of Tower Hill, London. Defendants: George Sclater. Date of bill (or first document): 1737 PROB 11/772/247 Prize agent e.g. London Gazette 1 May 1716Issue:5430Page:2 Party in 1741 to litigation re Jamaica as defendant alongside John Mason (q.v.), John Simpson (q.v.) et al. in a suit by Morgan Donovan, administrator of Timothy Donovan late of Jamaica,, C 11/1568/35. Party to litigation in 1742 almost certainly arising from voyage 76884 in 1742, the voyage of the Argyle, in which George Hamilton was owner-captain and Lascelles, Hall, Pinnell and Jasper were the co-owners; C 11/2189/18, Description: Short title: Lascelles v Hamilton. Document type: Bill only. Plaintiffs: Henry Lascelles, merchant of London, Thomas Hall, esq of Ormond Street, Middlesex and William Hambley and Richard Pinnell, gents of London (last three are executors of Richard Pinnell, esq deceased late of Tooting, Surrey) and Edward Jasper, esq of Tower Hill, London. Defendants: George Hamilton and Mary More. Date of bill (or first document): 1742.
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76569 - Prince William (1734 - 1736)
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76884 - Argyle (1736 - 1737)
Role: Owner
76577 - Sarah (1736 - 1738)
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Date: 1749
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Date: 13/08/1749
Location: City of London (Middlesex)
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
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Wii of Edward Jasper of Towerhill London made 05/12/1740. He made his wife Ann Jasper his universal legatee, and executrix alongside Thomas Gardner of Rood Lane, Mrs Sarah Norman of Towerhill and Thomas Bell. [Successive administrations were granted to Thomas Gardner the surviving executor in 1775; and then in 1781 to Ann Millar or Miller wife of John Miller the administratrix of Ann Jasper, then in 1825 to John Miller and in 1850 to Sarah Mitchell. In the will of Ann Jasper proved 1751 she left her net estate to her son Richard Jasper and her daughter Ann Vacher].
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