P_10433_2582 – Edward Grace
Edward Grace was owner of two slaving voyages from London and co-owner (with Arnold Nesbitt) of a third, between 1767 and 1769, two of which were to Galam, and all captained by Edward Williamson. Business correspondence between Edward Grace and his associates concerning the slave trade on the coast of Africa in 1767-1770 was published by T.S. Ashton, who said: ‘Of Grace himself, little is known’, and suggests he was possibly the son of Samuel Grace, a signatory of the London merchants’ letter to George III on his accession in 1760 [and in fact Edward Grace’s brother]. He appears to have entered the slave-trade from involvement originally in bilateral trade between London and West Africa. E. Grace was shown as ‘broker, Cornhill’ in Lucy Sutherland’s listing of the brokers doing business with the insurance underwriter William Braund.
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First name: Edward
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Last name: Grace
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Mary Ray
Spouse (married 19/05/1766)
Marriage at St Mary Lambeth. This is tentative only. Mary was certainly the name of Edward Grace's second wife, but Edward Grace was shown as of the parish of St Mary Lambeth, widower.
Elizabeth Bell
Spouse (married 23/01/1763)
Marriage at St Mary Islington
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: PROB 11/1038/4 T.S. Ashton (ed.) Letters of a West African Trader: Edward Grace 1767-70 (1950.) L.S. Sutherland, A London Merchant p. 145
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Crossings (3)
77994 - Expedition (1769 - 1770)
Role: Owner
77958 - Expedition (1768 - 1769)
Role: Owner
77914 - Charming Nancy (1767 - 1767)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1728
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Death
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Burial
Date: 19/12/1777
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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): £5,500
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Edward Grace merchant of Exchange Alley made 06/12/1777. He left his wife Mary £300 and his household effects other than some jewellery belonging to his late wife Elizabeth that he gave to their daughter Louisa. He instructed his executors to buy £2500 of the 4% funds and pay the interest to his wife for life, with the principal among his children equally, failing whom to his bother Samuel Grace of Cornhill. He gave each of his children Louisa, Harriet, Maria, Edward and Adam £500 each, and Louisa a further £200.
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