P_10433_3000 – James Mather of Birchin Lane
James Mather of Birchin Lane (c. 1738-1796), London merchant, and shipowner in partnership with John Julius Angerstein. The appearance of ‘Js Mather’ and ‘James Mather’ for two clusters of voyages in the 1770s and 1780s has caused confusion but they represent two separate men, James Mather of New Orleans (q.v.) and James Mather of this entry. The two men were intertwined in a prize appeal in 1781 (not yet examined) that might shed light on their relationship. James Mather of Birchin Lane is known to have owned the Hannibal, which made a slaving voyage from London to Bonny and Dominica in 1784, was almost certainly the owner of another slaving voyage from London by the Three Brothers in 1782 and was probably the owner of six further slaving voyages from London between 1782 and 1786.
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First name: James
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Last name: Mather
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Sources: PROB 11/1271/99 Before the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes: Sn. Luis, Alia El Alesandro, Bartholomew Toutant Beauregard, Master. James Mather, of Birchin Lane, London, Merchant, Claimant of 34 Bales of Skins, ... Appellant. Patrick Morgan, Late of the River Mississippi, ... and His Partner James Mather, at Present a Prisoner of War in New Orleans, ... Owners of the Part of the Cargo Claimed by the Appellant, Intervener. Benjamin Buttell, ... Respondent. On an Appeal from the High Court of Admiralty of England (High Court of Appeals for Prizes, 1781). Jane M. Clayton and Charles A. Clayton, Shipowners investing in the South Sea Whale Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815 p. 76 gives a profile of Mather & Co. and of James Mather. T 1/549/289-291 Description: AFRICA: Senegambia (including Goree): J Bullock and G Browne: report on memorial of James Mather regarding supply of provisions to Senegambia Date: 1779 Oct 23.
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Organisations (1)
Lloyd's of London
Role: Member
Crossings (9)
83841 - Trial (1783 - 1783)
Role: Captain-owner
83799 - Three Brothers (1782 - 1782)
Role: Owner
82488 - Mars (1782 - 1782)
Role: Owner
81718 - Hannibal (1784 - 1785)
Role: Owner
81396 - Fanny (1786 - 1786)
Role: Captain
81395 - Fanny (1785 - 1786)
Role: Captain-owner
81394 - Fanny (1783 - 1784)
Role: Owner
81323 - Europa (1783 - 1783)
Role: Owner
82830 - Nancy (1784 - 1784)
Role: Owner
Birth
Date: 1738
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Death
Date: 19/01/1796
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Burial
Date: 1796
Location: Greenwich (Kent)
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
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Town/City: City of London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
Will of James Mather of Copthall Hall Buildings London merchant made 17/06/1789. He made his wife Ann universal legatee and sole executrix, unless she remarried, in which case he left his property among his children James, Thomas, John, Ann, Frances and Benjamin. Administration of the will was granted to John Mather 20/08/1810, after the death of his mother Ann and the renounciation or death of her own executrix Frances Mather.
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