P_10433_2513 – William Tod
London West India merchant and slave-owner, owner of a voyage by the ship Industrious Friends from London to Africa and Grenada in 1764. His will indicates substantial wealth and elite executors in Scotland.
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First name: William
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Last name: Tod
Aliases: Todd, Wiiliam
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: 'Industrious Friends', the ship in William Tod[d]'s one reported voyage is shown by Hancock, Citizens of the World p. 134 as belonging to John Mill with Walter Tod and Robert Clarke as masters: William Tod and Mill were co-owners of cotton plantations on Carriacou. William Tod was in partnership with William Collow and Thomas Cheap and John Henderson in William Tod & Co. until 1782 LG 27 April 1782Issue:12291Page:5 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146645785
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William Tod & Co.
Role: Partner
Crossings (1)
77794 - Industrious Friends (1764 - 1765)
Role: Owner
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £62,000
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
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Will of William Tod merchant of London proved 26/11/1799. Under the will he left his estate in trust (the trustees included the Earl of Moray and Sir David Carnegie) to secure an annuity of £700 p.a. (over and above the £300 p.a. to which she was already entitled) to his wife Jean: he left £10,000 each to his two daughters, Ann the wife of John Halkett and Elizabeth (£5000 as a lump sum and £5000 in trust with the interest on the latter going 4/5th to a husband and 1/5th to the daughter, the capital for their children); £12,000 to his son William; and £10,000 each to his other sons Archibald Francis and John James, subject to the deduction of stock in the British Linen Co. he had transferred as in vivo gifts. His property included enslaved people on unspecified estates in the West Indies.
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