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First name:
Kender
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Last name:
Mason
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Primary cohort:
London
Sex:
Male
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Political Offices Held
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Bankruptcies
Kender Mason left London for the West Indies after his bankruptcy, pursued by creditors, London Gazette 23 February 1747Issue:8722Page:3
Geographic experiences
Americas
Kender Mason was active in Antigua in the 1750s and possibly in Dominica later in the 1770s.
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Supplier to slave trade voyages:
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Creditor to slave trade voyages:
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Philanthropy:
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Plantation owner:
Yes
Sources:
HCA 26/8/88
PROB 11/1203/116
https://amershammuseum.org/history/people/17th-18th-centuries/mason-family/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146644759
Gregory E. O'Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 p. 311 shows 'Kender, Mason [sic] and Co., a British trading house at Roseau' selling 3710 Africans in Dominica and 1,173 in Puerto Rico via Dominica in 1768, and 5,003 captive Africans in Dominica in 1772.
The three voyages by the Otter 1765-1767 to Antigua, and the voyages by the Utfield in 1766 to Grenada, the Dispatch in 1766, and the Nancy in 1767 (and the Polly in 1769) are all given simply as 'Mason' in the TASTDB, the Utfield with Philip Enouf and the Dispatch with 'Mason (Sons)'. This latter voyage appears anomalous: Kender Mason's sons were infants.
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Organisations
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Crossings (4)
Birth
Date:
1722
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Death
Date:
1791
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Burial
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Christening:
29/01/1722
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Residencies
Hatton Street, St Andrews Holborn
City of London (Middlesex)
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Universities
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Inns of Court
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Military training
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Imperial positions
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Apprenticeships
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Livery company affiliations
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Other business activities
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Was slave trading profitable:
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Will
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Will of Kender Mason of [Hatton Street] St Andrew Holborn made 26/07/1786 proved 22/03/1791. Under the will he left what appears to be largely urban property in London and diverse plantations in Montserrat, Antigua, Dominica or elsewhere in the West Indies in trust to be divided between his sons Henry William Mason and Kender Mason [jun.]. Kender Mason the testator said he was possessed of a large personal estate, including a debt of upwards of £40,000 owed to him by his son Henry William Mason and his partners Henry Blundell and Nicholas Masterson, and various other debts in England , Montserrat, Antigua and Dominica and elsewhere in the West Indies. The grant of probate showed that his son and co-heir Henry William Mason had become Henry William Pomeroy.
Legacies
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