P_10433_2510 – Michael James
London merchant, slave-trader and slave-owner, co-owner of an estate he named as Hamsted Hill on Grenada, and owner of six slaving voyages from London to Gambia or Calabar and then to Charleston or Grenada between 1763 and 1766, and almost certainly owner of a seventh in the Regis to Calabar and Grenada in 1771 for which the TASTDB shows no ownership information.
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First name: Michael
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Last name: James
Aliases: James, Mich, James, Ml
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: Yes
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666873
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666873 Although the voyage of the Britannia (77789) is shown as co-owned with Benjamin Stead (q.v.), there appears to be conflation of two different ships of the same name. PROB 11/1148/285.
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Crossings (7)
77826 - London (1765 - 1766)
Role: Owner
77825 - Regis (1765 - 1766)
Role: Owner
77807 - Tryal (1765 - 1766)
Role: Owner
77789 - Britannia (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
77770 - Regis (1764 - 1764)
Role: Owner
77220 - Tryal (1763 - 1764)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1786
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Burial
Date: 14/12/1786
Location: City of London (Middlesex)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Michael James of [Haydon Square in the parish of] Trinity Minories proved 20/12/1786. He left his one-third interest in his plantation called Hamsted Hill 'with the negroes and appurtenances thereto belonging', his freehold in Haydon Square, and his freehold land at Brentford to his wife Susanna for life and then to his son, also named Michael James. He left an annuity of £150 p.a. to his daughter Susanna Varnham. His executors James Mangles and Charles Richardson were empowered under his will to buy 'negroes' and manage the Grenada estate as James himself had done.
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