P_10433_3015 – John Higgin
John Higgin, London merchant ship-owner and slave-owner (1754-1826), and co-owner and captain of a slaving voyage from London by the Fanny to West Central Africa and St Ann’s Bay in 1792. Partner with his co-owner William Bolt (q.v.) in Bolt & Higgin, and subsequently an increasingly important figure in the ‘West India trade’ as senior partner in Higgin & Whiteley of London.
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First name: John
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Last name: Higgin
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Plantation owner: Yes
Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146641271
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Crossings (1)
81424 - Fanny (1792 - 1793)
Role: Captain-owner
Birth
Date: 1754
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Death
Date: 1826
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Burial
Date: 24/06/1826
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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
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Was slave trading profitable: Don't know
Will
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Value of Known Legacies (where material to total estate): £31,000
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Will of John Higgin merchant of [London Field in the parish of] Hackney [and of London Street City of London] Middlesex [made 14/01/1825] proved 29/07/1826. He left his wife Mary his freehold house at London Field and all his household effects; 4 £500 shares in the Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Office; the dividends from his 60 shares of £50 in the Atlas; and an annuity of £800 p.a. secured on his estates in Jamaica. He further charged a sum of £16,000 on theses estates, the interest on half of which was to be paid to his daughter Mary for life and then the principal to her children, and the interest on the other half was to be paid to his daughter Sarah Graham, wife of Joseph Graham. The estate themselves he left subject to these charges to his sons Isaac and Thomas Winder Higgin. He left a further £2000 to his grandchildren Jane and George Whiteley, the children of his late daughter Jane Whiteley and her husband George Whiteley. He instructed that the business of Higgin & Whiteley be continued for seven years after his death, with profits shared equally between his sons Isaac and Thomas Winder Higgin and George Whiteley, and he provided for arbitration if any dispute arose over the several vessels in which he asserted ownership as his private property rather than as the property of the partnership of Higgin & Whiteley.
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