P_10433_2433 – Thomas Collett
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Thomas Collett (fl. 1723-1774), co-owner with unknown others of a voyage from London to the Gold Coast and Kingston Jamaica by the Albinia in 1752. London merchant and mortgagee of ‘slave-property.’ Perry Gauci described Thomas Collett as William Beckford’s ‘general man-of-business’ and then business partner in Beckford, Collett & Evans in Nicholas Lane (1763-1767) and Collett & Co (1767-1772), and gave a brief background on Collett as previously a captain in the West India trade. Collett had been master of the Albinia in 1746-47 and co-owner of the ship with Solomon Ashley and William Beckford in 1757. To date no death-date or will has been found for him.
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650975
Thomas Collet [sic] was owner of a privateer with the Jamaican slave-owner Florentius Vassall and John Powell in 1761 HCA 26/12/57.
Perry Gauci, William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire (Yale, 2013) pp. 152 and 262.
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