P_10433_2919 – Samuel Hartley
London merchant, owner or co-owner of four slaving voyages from London between 1781 and 1785, and of fourteen slaving voyage from Liverpool between 1779 and 1789, with a variety of itineraries in Africa and the Americas. In 1794 Sam. Hartley & Co. merchants were at 33 Swithin’s Lane, Lombard Street. The nature of his mercantile business has not been fully traced, but the slave-trade appears to have been a significant part of his activity. His major cultural legacy was a series of family portraits he commissioned from George Romney, including of his brother James Hartley (sold at Christie’s in 2004 for £386,050); of David Hartley MP (held by the Avery Library, Columbia University); and of his own three children (held by the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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First name: Samuel
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Last name: Hartley
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Social background: Professional
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Relations
Charlotte Eyre
Spouse (married 19/06/1766)
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Internal migrant: Don't know
Foreign born: No
Supplier to slave trade voyages: Don't know
Creditor to slave trade voyages: Yes
Creditor of Miles Barber
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Plantation owner: Don't know
Sources: London Gazette 7 November 1780Issue:12134Page:2; ibid, 31 July 1790Issue:13223Page:486.
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Crossings (4)
83807 - Tiger (1785 - 1785)
Role: Owner
80917 - Comte du Norde (1783 - 1784)
Role: Owner
83096 - Pidgeon (1781 - 1781)
Role: Owner
82261 - Lion (1785 - 1786)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1739
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Death
Date: 12/12/1816
Location: Bath (Somerset)
Burial
Date: 20/12/1816
Location: Bath (Somerset)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Town/City: Bath (Somerset)
Courts: PCC
Will of Samuel Hartley late of the City of London merchant but now residing in Widcombe Crescent in the parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe made 30/11/1814 [?13/11/1814]. He left to his son Winchcombe Henry Eyre Hartley for life and then to the latter's children three paintings 'all painted for me by Romney' and several other family portraits and drawings. He left his household goods to his daughter Charlotte again for life, then to her children, and his own portrait by Romney to his sister Mrs Francis. He left £1300 in trust for his daughter Mary to have the interest. He made his daughter Charlotte co-executor of the will.
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