P_10433_2913 – Peter Everitt Mestaer
London ship-builder and ship owner, sole owner of two slaving voyages from London by the Constantine and the Adeona in 1802 and 1803 to Bonny and Congo River respectively and then both to Montevideo, and almost certainly the Peter Mestears [sic] shown as co-owner of a slaving voyage by the Duchess of Portland in 1792 (Peter Mestaer, the father of Peter Everitt Mestaer, had died in 1791).
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First name: Peter Everitt
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Last name: Mestaer
Aliases: Mestears, Peter E, Mesetears, Peter Everitt
Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Trade
Primary outcome: Trade
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Peter Mestaer
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Don't know
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Sources: PROB 11/1613/392 Will of Peter Mestaer of Wanstead Essex proved 05/02/1791, PROB 11/1201/100. In a codicil he altered his will to leave his son John Everitt Mestaer an annuity of £200 p.a. instead of specified assets, making Peter Everitt Mestaer (who had inherited the shipbuilding business under the original will) his major heir of his whole estate.
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Crossings (2)
80910 - Constantine (1802 - 1803)
Role: Owner
80038 - Adeona (1803 - 1803)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1763
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Death
Date: 1819
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Burial
Date: 13/02/1819
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Christening: 13/11/1763
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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): £43,500
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of Peter Everitt Mestaer, ship-builder of New Broad Street London made 02/06/1809. He left to Sarah Haworth wife of John Haworth of Chester for her separate use his house known as Oak Hall in Wanstead Essex and his house at New Brand Street and estates yielding £3000 p.a., with proviso for his personalty to be invested if the rents from his estates fell short of £3000 p.a, for her natural life, and then to the children of [his brother] John Everitt Mestaer until 21, when they were to receive the principal. He left John Everitt Mestaer an annuity of £800 p.a. He left three nieces the interest on £1000, £2000 and £2000. He left other legacies of c. £500 to clerks, etc., and instructed the the ship of 820 tons then building at Rotherhithe be offered to George Gooch, one of his executors alongside Robert Pulsford and William Lewis. He made Sarah Haworth his residuary heir without any explanation.
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