P_10433_2178 – Timothy Bridge
Co-owner of a slaving voyage by the Hiscox from London to Charleston in 1738, for which he is given as Timothy Bridges in TASTDB. Conceivably Timothy Bridge Commander-in-Chief of HM’s ships at Jamaica, whose will was proved in 1738, who had been on the African coast as a Royal Navy captain and who was alleged to have traded illicitly with the French on St Domingue.
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Sources: The rules and orders of the Stepney society, with a list of the stewards ...from the commencement in 1674 to 1760, p. 60. H. J. Paul, 'Joint-Stock Companies as the Sinews of War: the South Sea and Royal African Companies' in R.T. Sanchez (ed.) War, State and Development. Fiscal-Military States in the Eighteenth Century (2007), p. 293. Mewett, R. E. (2020). ‘To the very great prejudice of the fair trader’: merchants and illicit naval trading in the 1730s*. Historical Research, 93(262), 692–714. https://doi.org/10.1093/HISRES/HTAA016 PROB 11/691/55.
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76712 - Hiscox (1738 - 1739)
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