P_10433_2718 – James Bloy
London merchant, owner of three known slaving voyages between 1776 and 1784, and a supplier to others. The will of James Bloy, wine merchant of St Katharine near the Tower of London was proved 04/05/1784. Advertisements for his creditors after his death indicating a trust deed existed suggest that he was in financial difficulty at the end of his life.
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First name: James
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Last name: Bloy
Aliases: Bloy
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Ann Wallington
Spouse (married 01/01/1770)
Ann Brown
Spouse (married 30/10/1764)
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Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Yes
Supplier of gunpowder and weapons to the Camelia's voyage in 1775-7, possibly as principal.
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: 'Read, an Order of the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, dated September 14th, 1775, referring to this Board, for their consideration and report, the petition of James Bloy, of London, merchant, praying leave to export to the coast of Africa, on board the brig Camelia, Robert Aynsley, master, twenty barrels of common trading gunpowder, one hundred trade guns, and one hundred cutlasses, for trade on the African coast', https://www.british-history.ac.uk/jrnl-trade-plantations/vol13/pp429-436. PROB 11/1116/253. London Gazette 3 April 1785Issue:12641Page:203
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Crossings (3)
80548 - Betsey (1783 - 1784)
Role: Owner
78230 - Nancy (1776 - 1776)
Role: Owner
82295 - Little Polly (1780 - 1782)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1784
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Was slave trading profitable: No
Will
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Courts: PCC
James Bloy left his wife Anne £1000, his daughter Ann by a former wife £500 and his son and daughter James and Mary £500 each. 'My wife to carry on the hat business for the benefit of herself and the two girls Ann and Mary; the wine trade to be carried on for the benefit of my son James and Christopher Yates and the firm [form?] of the house to be Bloy and Yates.'
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