Title:
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First name:
Gilbert
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Last name:
Francklyn
Aliases:
Franklyn, Gilbert
Primary cohort:
London
Sex:
Male
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Plantation owner:
Yes
Slave-owner on Tobago. By 1773: Gilb. & P. Francklyn were shown as the Present Proprietors of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lots nos. 1, 7 & 8 (which became the Hope estate); G. Frankyln with J. Simpson were shown as Present Proprietors of Courland Bay division (St David parish) Lot no. 1, which James Simpson had bought 12/05/1766 and which became Courland estate; and G. Francklyn was shown as Present Proprietor of Courland Bay division (St David) Lots nos. 12-14, originally purchased by Anthony Richardson, of which Lots no. 12 and 14 became Franklyns while Lot no. 13 formed part of Les Coteaux.
Sources:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632169
ODNB, Jacob M. Price,'Bacon, Anthony (bap. 1717, d. 1786), merchant and ironmaster', in which Gilbert Francklyn is described as 'a young gentleman from Maidstone.'
Abridgment of the Minutes of the Evidence: Taken Before a Committee of the Whole House..to Consider the Slave Trade (1789)
PROB 11/1325/168.
TNA SP 37/4/5 Description: Folios 10-13. Folio 10. Letter from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to the Earl of Halifax enclosing: Folios 11-13. Examination of Captain Baird, commander of the 'Charming Molly' of London, by the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa concerning the state of Portodally and Joually [Senegal] when he traded there in 1760,1762 and 1763 during 'the late war' [Seven Years' War]. He says that in November 1763 having unsuccessfully attempted to go from Gambia to Goree, in French possession following peace, he went to Joually where 'the natives would not trade with him, because they esteemed the French to have a right to the trade' on account of the mud house being repaired by the French. Date: 1764 Dec 19 - 1765 Jan 24.
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Crossings (1)
Birth
Date:
1733
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Death
Date:
1799
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Other business activities
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Was slave trading profitable:
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Will
Value of Total Personalty:
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate):
£12,000
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Town/City:
London (Middlesex)
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Will of Gilbert Francklyn of Wimpole Street proved 07/06/1799. Under the will he left an annuity of £800 p.a. to his wife, to be reduced to £400 p.a. if her entitlement in remainder to the estate of her father William Ottley should crystallise. He gave £4000 to his daughter Frances Edith Francklyn (to mirror he said the settlement he had made on his daughter Maria's marriage to Robert Lang) secured on his estate in Tobago, and subject to these annuities and some monetary legacies left his residuary estate to his sons John Gilbert, Charles Alfred and Henry as tenants-in-common.
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