P_10433_2101 – William Bignell

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First name: William

Middle name: /

Last name: Bignell

Aliases: Bignell

Primary cohort: London

Sex: Male

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Internal migrant: Don't know

Foreign born: Don't know

Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know

Philanthropy: Don't know

Plantation owner: No

Sources: London Gazette 6218 19 November 1723 p.2. C11/607/7 Bignell v Lone, Plaintiffs: William Bignell and Nathaniel Barnardiston, merchants of London. Defendants: Richard Lone, master mariner of London. Subject: voyage of the sloop "Dennis" to Guinea and Jamaica carrying slaves, gold and elephant's teeth [ivory]. Date of bill (or first document): 1723. C 11/2613/19 Dumarisq v Vognell. Document type: Bill and two answers. Plaintiffs: Abraham Dumarisq, mariner of London. Defendants: Henry Vognell and Edward Doe [probably Dod] (assignees of William Bignell, bankrupt), Zachariah Foxall, esq, Thomas Reynolds, Edward Morgan, Nathaniel Barnardiston, Henry Revell, Thomas Drew, Sedgewick Gilbert, Thomas Palmer, Michael Pain, Thomas Shoesmith, Joseph Stocker, Timothy Crump, Robert Junolls, William Lowe and Edward Dodd [sic]. Date of bill (or first document): 1723. A possibly related suit appears at C 11/2613/28 Dark v Vognell.Document. Bill and two answers. Plaintiffs: Nicholas Dark, mariner of London. Defendants: Henry Vognell and Edward Doe [probably Dod] (assignees of William Bignell) William Keely, John Rawlins, Obediah Swift, Joseph Harper, Thomas Moor, Francis Musgrove, Thomas Raynor, Richard Stanton, Matthew Allport, Richard Hinton, Ebenzer Mansell, Thomas Chatfield, Joseph Tynam, William Westall, John Cartlitch, esq, Zachariah Foxall, Edward Morgan, esq, William Tudor, John Sydey, William Burkett, William Thomas, John James, Cornelius Lapion, Andrew Chancell, George Carnince, David Munroe, George Crookshanks, Thomas Vognell.. Date of bill (or first document): 1723. A third potentially relevant suit was Duke of Portland v Barnardiston at C 11/740/3: Bill and answer. Plaintiffs: Henry [Bendinck] Duke of Portland. Defendants: Nathaniel Barnardiston, merchant of London, William Bignell, Henry Vogwell and Edward Dodd. Date of bill (or first document): 1724. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved...Vol. III 1704-1705, p. 420.