P_10433_3073 – James Baillie
James Baillie was a major London West India merchant and slave-owner, partner with Edmund Thornton, with whom he had slaving voyages from Liverpool. He left £250,000 at death c. 1827. James Baillie was shown as a co-owner for the voyage of the Hercules from London to Iles de Los and then to Dominica in 1791. He was possibly acting with his co-owners William Taylor and William Clay as trustees of Miles Barber for this voyage: Miles Barber had been the owner of a previous voyage of the Hercules in 1788.
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First name: James
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Last name: Baillie
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Primary cohort: London
Sex: Male
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Supplier to slave trade voyages: No
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Sources: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146633540 John Wentworth, A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents ...Vol. I (1797) p. 389 et seq. shows a group of trustees of the estate of Miles Barber comprising James Baillie, Richard [sic], William Clay, William Taylor, John Shoolbred, John Barnes and Francis Henry [Shepherd]. The case concerned insurance of ship named the Eleanor with William Cazalet, and appears to have concerned Miles Barber of Lothbury in London who was bankrupt by 1790. The voyage of the Eleanor in 1785-7 does not appear in the TASTDB. Rawley London: Metropolis of the Slave Trade confuses James Baillie of Bedford Square and Ealing Grove MP d. 1793 (pp. 131 and 136) with James Baillie of Bedford Square d. c. 1828 (p. 141). The man of the voyage has been inferred by DBS to be James Bailie of Bedford Square.
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Organisations (1)
Lloyd's of London
Role: Member
Crossings (1)
81807 - Hercules (1789 - 1791)
Role: Owner
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Death
Date: 1827
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Occupation: Merchant – West Indies
Partner in Baillie, Thornton and Campbell
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Was slave trading profitable: No
Will
Value of Total Personalty: £250,000
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Town/City: London (Middlesex)
Courts: PCC
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