P_10433_2107 – Thomas Truman
Major and under-researched London West India merchant of the mid-18th century, with two voyages in the Sarah to St Kitts in 1725-6, and a further voyage as co-owner in the Betty to Charleston in 1738.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Truman
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146662371 PROB 11/949/32 Two voyages by the Truman or Trueman in 1758 and 1760 , both to Gambia and then St Croix, with different captains, have no ownership information in TASTDB. A ship of the same name appears in Lloyds Register 1768 with Neave & Co. as owners.
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Crossings (3)
76708 - Betty (1737 - 1738)
Role: Owner
76634 - Sarah (1725 - 1726)
Role: Owner
76631 - Sarah (1724 - 1725)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Courts: PCC
Under the will of Thomas Truman proved in 1769 the major beneficiaries were his nephews Richard Neave (q.v. under Sir Richard Neave 1st bart.) and James Neave (to each of whom he left monetary legacies of £15,000 over 5 years as well as land in Britain: Richard Neave inherited Truman's freehold estates in London and James Neave inherited his estate at Higham Hill in Walthamstow). He left his estates in Huntingdonshire to William Wells, the husband of his niece Elizabeth Wells, subject to two sums of £5000 the first dealt with in a trust deed of 1765 and the second mirroring the first, and £2000 to Richard Neave and £1000 to James Neave. After further smaller monetary legacies of £100 or 100 guineas each, he left his residual estate to Richard Neave. The will identified his partners as John Willett and Richard Neave.
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