P_10433_2782 – William Camden
Born: Unknown
Died: 1796
Sugar refiner and major London slave-trader, shown as owner or co-owner of 61 voyages from London, and a further 11 direct from Caribbean ports, almost all in partnership with Anthony Calvert (q.v.).
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First name: William
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Last name: Camden
Aliases: Camden, Cambdens, Campdn
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Relations
John Camden
Father
The will of John Camden sugar refiner of St John Wapping was proved in 1758.
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Bankruptcies
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Geographic experiences
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Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: Don't know
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Philanthropy: Don't know
Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: PROB 11/1281/219
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Crossings (61)
75092 - Apollo (1776 - 1777)
Role: Owner
78080 - Ferret (1772 - 1772)
Role: Owner
78057 - Venus (1771 - 1772)
Role: Owner
77530 - Apollo (1774 - 1775)
Role: Owner
77232 - Venus (1775 - 1775)
Role: Owner
77094 - Juliet (1777 - 1777)
Role: Owner
76312 - William (1770 - 1771)
Role: Owner
83957 - Venus (1795 - 1796)
Role: Owner
83956 - Venus (1794 - 1794)
Role: Owner
83955 - Venus (1792 - 1793)
Role: Owner
83953 - Venus (1791 - 1791)
Role: Owner
83952 - Venus (1790 - 1790)
Role: Owner
83951 - Venus (1788 - 1789)
Role: Owner
83950 - Venus (1787 - 1788)
Role: Owner
83949 - Venus (1786 - 1787)
Role: Owner
83948 - Venus (1784 - 1785)
Role: Owner
83947 - Venus (1783 - 1784)
Role: Owner
83903 - Union (1794 - 1795)
Role: Owner
83902 - Union (1793 - 1794)
Role: Owner
83900 - Union (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
83899 - Union (1790 - 1790)
Role: Owner
80889 - Commerce (1794 - 1795)
Role: Owner
80888 - Commerce (1790 - 1790)
Role: Owner
80887 - Commerce (1789 - 1790)
Role: Owner
80886 - Commerce (1786 - 1788)
Role: Owner
80884 - Commerce (1784 - 1785)
Role: Owner
80883 - Commerce (1783 - 1784)
Role: Owner
80346 - Argus (1807 - 1808)
Role: Owner
80343 - Arethusa (1801 - 1801)
Role: Owner
80325 - Antonetta (1786 - 1787)
Role: Owner
80199 - Allison (1806 - 1806)
Role: Owner
80198 - Allison (1803 - 1805)
Role: Owner
80099 - Africa (1799 - 1800)
Role: Owner
80098 - Africa (1797 - 1798)
Role: Owner
83648 - Surprize (1792 - 1793)
Role: Owner
83647 - Surprize (1791 - 1791)
Role: Owner
83627 - Star (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
83601 - Spy (1795 - 1797)
Role: Owner
83596 - Spy (1785 - 1786)
Role: Owner
83595 - Spy (1784 - 1785)
Role: Owner
83257 - Queen (1794 - 1795)
Role: Owner
82907 - Nelson (1805 - 1805)
Role: Owner
82906 - Nelson (1803 - 1804)
Role: Owner
82587 - Mary (1794 - 1794)
Role: Owner
82586 - Mary (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
82585 - Mary (1790 - 1791)
Role: Owner
82584 - Mary (1789 - 1790)
Role: Owner
82583 - Mary (1788 - 1789)
Role: Owner
82108 - Juno (1796 - 1796)
Role: Owner
82054 - John (1787 - 1789)
Role: Owner
82052 - John (1785 - 1786)
Role: Owner
81482 - Fly (1795 - 1796)
Role: Owner
81481 - Fly (1794 - 1795)
Role: Owner
81479 - Fly (1792 - 1792)
Role: Owner
81478 - Fly (1790 - 1791)
Role: Owner
81477 - Fly (1788 - 1789)
Role: Owner
81476 - Fly (1787 - 1788)
Role: Owner
81475 - Fly (1785 - 1786)
Role: Owner
81341 - Experiment (1794 - 1795)
Role: Owner
81337 - Experiment (1791 - 1792)
Role: Owner
81335 - Experiment (1789 - 1790)
Role: Owner
Birth
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Death
Date: 1796
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Burial
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Schools
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Other business activities
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
Value of Total Personalty: /
Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £19,850
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Courts: PCC
Will of William Camden merchant of City of London [made in 1794] proved 23/11/1796. He left his estate at Grafton Oxfordshire in the occupation of Daniel Taylor and his estate at Standlake Oxfordshire and all his other real estate to Daniel Taylor, without explanation. He left: £1000 to his niece Sukey Richardson, the daughter of his sister Mary Arrowsmith wife of Edward Arrowsmith; £2500 to his friend and partner Mr Anthony Calvert; £1000 to his partner Thomas King; and £500 to George Lear sugar baker, the last two legacies to compensate them for the trouble as his trustees. He left £200 to William Handayside sugar baker of Wapping. He instructed his executors to lay out £500 and pay the interest to his niece Mary Ann Camden, daughter of Mary Arrowsmith and wife of his nephew John Camden, and to invest £14,150 to be received from Calvert and King with the interest to be paid to his sister Mary Arrowsmith for life, with authority for her to will £2650 of this amount to her children; £1000 of the balance was to go to his niece Harriott Mangles wife of John Mangles of Wapping; and another £1000 to his great-nephews William and John Nield. The remaining £9500 after Mary Arrowsmith's death was to go to Sukey Richardson, failing whom to Mary Ann Camden failing whom to John Camden. Camden provided that if it were inconvenient for Anthony Calvert and Thomas King for £14,150 to be withdrawn from the partnership, then it was to be paid in instalments of £2000 two years after his death, £3000 p.a. for three years thereafter and £3150 six years after Camden's death. He left John Camden his two sugar houses in St George in the East held under lease from St Thomas' Hospital and Bridewell Hospital. He left the effects in his Leytonstone house to Mary Arrowsmith, and after monetary legacies to servants, Camden made Anthony Calvert his residuary legatee.
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