P_10433_2115 – William Fenton
William Fenton (d. c. 1754), slave-owner on St Kitts and Montserrat, co-owner of a slaving voyage from London by the Lady’s Adventure to Africa and Antigua in 1723, with the family of Thomas Butler of Camberwell (q.v.) and Ann Stapleton (q.v.) and Frances Stapleton (q.v.) among others. He left estates and enslaved people in his will made in 1753 and proved in 1754.
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First name: William
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Last name: Fenton
Aliases: Fenton, Wm
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Slave-owner in the English Leeward Islands.
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666739 J.R.V. Johnston, The Stapleton Sugar Plantations in the Leeward Islands, (The John Rylands Library) p. 186, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2890&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF [accessed 29/10/2022].
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Crossings (1)
76642 - Lady's Adventure (1723 - 1723)
Role: Owner
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Date: 1754
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Northaw (Hertfordshire)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Occupation: 'Planter'
Town/City: Northaw (Hertfordshire)
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Will of William Fenton [late of Saint Christopher but now of] of Northaw Hertfordshire [made in 1753] proved 10/05/1754. He left his wife one-third of his estates and enslaved people ('negroes and slaves') for life, and the rest for the support of his daughter also Jane, failing whom he left the property to Joseph Herbert judge of Nevis for life and then to Herbert's son Horatio.
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