P_10433_2776 – Thomas Sharples
London slave-captain, slave-trader and slave-owner dying on Dominica in 1808), co-owner of six slaving voyages from London and one from Dominica between 1789-1794, all with Robert Heatley (q.v.) and two also with John Olderman (q.v.), and in one of which Sharples was owner-captain. The three men were in partnership in London until 1797. The 1808 will of Thomas Sharples formerly of Blackburn now of Edmonton tied him to Dominica, to which many of his 1790s voyages had sailed.
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First name: Thomas
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Last name: Sharples
Aliases: Thomas Sharpless
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
Esther Cross
Spouse (married 13/03/1797)
Married at St James Clerkenwell. Esther Sharples later married William Hughes in London in 1815.
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Internal migrant: Yes
Formerly of Blackburn
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: No
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: No
Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: LondonGazette 2 September 1797Issue:14045Page:887 for partnership with Heatley and Olderman LMA MS 11936/387/603767 PROB 11/1484/269 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/197321731
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Crossings (7)
80090 - Africa (1792 - 1792)
Role: Owner
83479 - Sally (1791 - 1791)
Role: Owner
83477 - Sally (1789 - 1790)
Role: Captain-owner
82911 - Neptune (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
82305 - Lively (1794 - 1794)
Role: Owner
82304 - Lively (1792 - 1793)
Role: Owner
80091 - Africa (1792 - 1792)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1808
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Courts: PCC
The will of Thomas Sharples [formerly of Blackburn Lancashire but now] of Edmonton [made 26/04/1804] was proved 27/08/1808. The will was very simple and left everything to his wife Hester [sic]. In the attestation, made 20/08/1808, William Timmons of the Bank of England said that he had been informed and believed that the death of Thomas Sharples had occurred on the island of Dominica in 'June last.'
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